'But [Pandora's] founder promised the site will never carry as many audio ads as broadcast radio, despite the fact it pays substantially higher royalty fees to the recording industry.'
Same old half-truth. 1 second less is still "never as much as".
Good tech books do not become outdated/obsolete fast. Books tied to software, specifically certain versions of said software, become obsolete very fast. Of course bookstores usually stock books of the latter, and not the former.
I wasn't implying it was easy, just that it is possible. And even when you have to recreate the software because so much has changed, it is easier to do so when you can see how it was done in the first place (and maybe even reuse various parts that are still compatible).
With closed/non-free software you simply do not have that option. A way out, no matter how difficult, is always better than no way out.
There will always be corporations/people that won't be thrilled by the [lack of] an action.
Also, Microsoft and Adobe do not make a lot of software for the consumer market. Most of their software is way to overpowered for consumers. You don't need Photoshop for drawing or photo editing. There are enough gratis products that can do all that an average consumer wants to do. Same thing with MS Word, most people don't get any further than some text, an image, and maybe a table or two.
And that is exactly one of the benefits of Open Source/Free Software. You have the ability to change the software so that it will keep working in 15 years. With closed source/non-free software you have to rely on the software provider to keep their software updated while the runtime environment changed.
It doesn't matter if code is rewritten or forgotten. When you have the source you can always see it. If AutoCAD 1.0 does exactly what you need, then why would you want to get 2.0 or 23.0? Unless it's FLOSS, you simply have to, because 1.0 simply might not run on the replacement hardware. Software does not break because of old-age, unlike hardware.
Just like the activation servers for PC games will disappear in the future, and thereby rendering your game useless, DLC will disappear in the future, and thereby render your console game crippled.
Requiring online activation/DLC actually means you rent the game, rather than buying it. If you want to replay an old game in the future you probably have to rent the remake of it.
There is no reason why you can't use JavaScript as the script engine for your game engine. Just like you could use lua or python.
If the question is if JavaScript + WebBrowser is ready for games? Yes, has been for quite some time. With improving javascript interpreter speed and better webbrowser functionality (i.e. "canvas") element you can even create graphic intensive games. But javascript based sudoku, tetris, sokoban, etc. games have been possible for over 10 years.
Activision Blizzard (or as we like to call it here, Blizzactivision, or Tough Actin' Blizzactin) is the company who owns Blizzard, not Blizzard themselves.
They should change it to AB, much shorter. Then we would have EA, AB, 2K, ID, UB,...
So what that he posted AC, it doesn't change the fact that Valve has a kill switch for your steam account and therefore all games associated with that. That's a form of DRM I also don't like. And for that reason I don't play steam games.
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What 3D "holywood" movies are there (except for the occasional 3D animation)?
*puts mayonnaise on his fries*
Joking about what? Sounds like you didn't use good mayonnaise.
functional naming.
Machines need arbitrary names, functional names are aliases.
I hope they do a lot of damage so that they scare enough people so that they finally start protesting against those terrible plans.
It was previously covered here:
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/19/1440254
Holy crap, they know I post on slashdot.
wtf!? does that mean childporn is legal in Oklahoma?
so, normal porn can get a tax break?
But according to research from the people at Idle Thumbs (see episode 15) 2015 will be the year of the PS3.
Same old half-truth. 1 second less is still "never as much as".
On top of that:
Downloads = Demand + Tasting (which _could_ turn into demand)
Good tech books do not become outdated/obsolete fast. Books tied to software, specifically certain versions of said software, become obsolete very fast. Of course bookstores usually stock books of the latter, and not the former.
I wasn't implying it was easy, just that it is possible. And even when you have to recreate the software because so much has changed, it is easier to do so when you can see how it was done in the first place (and maybe even reuse various parts that are still compatible).
With closed/non-free software you simply do not have that option. A way out, no matter how difficult, is always better than no way out.
There will always be corporations/people that won't be thrilled by the [lack of] an action.
Also, Microsoft and Adobe do not make a lot of software for the consumer market. Most of their software is way to overpowered for consumers. You don't need Photoshop for drawing or photo editing. There are enough gratis products that can do all that an average consumer wants to do. Same thing with MS Word, most people don't get any further than some text, an image, and maybe a table or two.
And that is exactly one of the benefits of Open Source/Free Software. You have the ability to change the software so that it will keep working in 15 years. With closed source/non-free software you have to rely on the software provider to keep their software updated while the runtime environment changed.
It doesn't matter if code is rewritten or forgotten. When you have the source you can always see it. If AutoCAD 1.0 does exactly what you need, then why would you want to get 2.0 or 23.0? Unless it's FLOSS, you simply have to, because 1.0 simply might not run on the replacement hardware. Software does not break because of old-age, unlike hardware.
Shouldn't that be intelligent design? Otherwise we'd have way more python flavors.
*cringes in agony*
Please, please, please don't bring censorship into UK.
What do you mean "bring"? The UK already has a lot of censorship. The BBFC has been censoring media for quite some while.
Time for a duel between El Nachies and SCIgen?
Internet Explorer is at a disadvantage that is requires a system reboot in order to apply updates.
So, the USS Yorktown was an actual real life fail boat?
Just like the activation servers for PC games will disappear in the future, and thereby rendering your game useless, DLC will disappear in the future, and thereby render your console game crippled.
Requiring online activation/DLC actually means you rent the game, rather than buying it. If you want to replay an old game in the future you probably have to rent the remake of it.
There is no reason why you can't use JavaScript as the script engine for your game engine. Just like you could use lua or python.
If the question is if JavaScript + WebBrowser is ready for games? Yes, has been for quite some time. With improving javascript interpreter speed and better webbrowser functionality (i.e. "canvas") element you can even create graphic intensive games. But javascript based sudoku, tetris, sokoban, etc. games have been possible for over 10 years.
So... it's ok for me to comb my beard up to cover my face?
Activision Blizzard (or as we like to call it here, Blizzactivision, or Tough Actin' Blizzactin) is the company who owns Blizzard, not Blizzard themselves.
They should change it to AB, much shorter. ...
Then we would have EA, AB, 2K, ID, UB,
Spore was $50 in the US!?
ffs, EA wanted 60 euros in the Netherlands, which is a 50% markup.
So what that he posted AC, it doesn't change the fact that Valve has a kill switch for your steam account and therefore all games associated with that. That's a form of DRM I also don't like. And for that reason I don't play steam games.