Yah, i get that too. What is annoying is when they actually paid for the bloody thing and won't uninstall it and of course they don't have a record of the key to do a re-install. Good times
Please, you cannot tell me that the big sellers have some amazing game concept that raises them above all other games (excluding Katamari Damacy and a couple other games over the last few years). The big games are pretty much concepts like "Aliens take over the world by offering us immortality - go kill em" - HL2, "There's like these 2 factions with a bunch of races in them and you run around and level" - Wow. I havn't been keeping my eyes on sales figures but i'd suggest that ignoring a few well-done concept driven games, for the big sellers most of the basic concepts could be generated by 3 year olds. The story writers and the polish on both the media and code on these games are what makes them shine
Anyone with a single creative bone in their body, with a little time on their hands, can come up with awesome ideas from games. Talk is cheap, it's the 3 years of production time that is hard.
It's not the freedoms i get i'm worried about, but other coders' freedom to fork the project and make other stuff. Also, like BeOS, if Opera the company packs it in, where are you then?
Mostly, i'm concerned about the "Freedom" to not be left high and dry.
Don't forget, there's a lot of students with easy access to multimillion dollar equipment, this is, essentially, how the xbox got hacked (a couple of the times).
Heh, that site you mentioned, registered to Dynadot Privacy really smacks of a Grass Roots campaign by interested parties. I was particularly amused by the popup that was essentially an image of a firefox crash. It didn't even do anything interesting when clicked on.
People using "I could care less" generally state they meant "I could care less, but it would be quite difficult indeed", or that it is meant sarcastically, which is pretty much an accepted argument. Unfortunately i think (annoyingly) this one is a lost cause.
I don't think this one will take off, most of the flash devs are graphic designers and really aren't that excited (In general) to move to the next big thing if it means re-learning a bunch of stuff to do the same thing. Also they are a lot less prone to move to the Next Big Microsoft thing, and more likely to want stuff that works on a mac. Just my experience
Depends on your country, in aus it's a lot harder (outside of capital cities) to get that kind of bandwidth, and it's hard to find it cheap anywhere at all. This kind of home media box config will still be interesting to a lot of people in higher bandwidth cost countries for a few years yet.
Actually he stated in this interview (Pretty much in a reversal of all his previous ranting) that all he wanted to do was stop these games getting into the hands of minors.
For starters, i don't think kids can earn 6 figure salaries for learning C, mebee when they're 40.
Also: Crossword puzzles? Old apps? wtf? All that coding seems to have rotted your brain.
interesting idea, except you can simply rename it as a.jpg and ie will handily go "Hangon, this is a wmf file, i know what to do this... Root your box!"
I really disagree with what you're saying here. For starters: Wikipedia isn't a newspaper, it's an encyclopedia. Also, most mildly impartial comparisons (if they even exist) of veracity between W.P and other printed encyclopedias tend to come out in favour of wiki on an article by article average, so (kind of) therefore it has achieved it's goals and is a very useful source of information (unlike most opinion columns which have none of the benefits of even being anything other than inflamatory).
I think a lot of people who think Wiki to the Pedia is crap place too much weight on information being either right or wrong. No information on any mildly complicated or especially political matter is either, it simply has varying levels of verifiability or social acceptance (which, i think, will be the route the Wikipedia will have to take; some kind of voting for edits system which will probably stagnate the whole thing for a while till it gets streamlined; but i digress).
The secondary (and in my opionion the most important) thing about the grand wiki is that it is entirely digitised and free. This may not seem like a great thing, but it is. My Holy Fuck it is. You start to see streams of info intermesh where it touches; Information may want to be free but divinity wants it well organised.
I actually find it a heck of a lot easier to set up automatically resizing stuff in tables, i used to do a lot of web dev (now moved on) and my co-worker loved to set everything to a fixed size cause he had a lot of trouble making stuff more dynamic with css. I just used a couple tables and everything was smooth as silk.
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Yah, i get that too. What is annoying is when they actually paid for the bloody thing and won't uninstall it and of course they don't have a record of the key to do a re-install. Good times
Open source or bundled with windows, i can't see them making much progress on the second front though :)
Stopping people using symantec crap is a pretty effective use of time, I'd say.
I redeclare your name to be "Smacktard".
Please, you cannot tell me that the big sellers have some amazing game concept that raises them above all other games (excluding Katamari Damacy and a couple other games over the last few years). The big games are pretty much concepts like "Aliens take over the world by offering us immortality - go kill em" - HL2, "There's like these 2 factions with a bunch of races in them and you run around and level" - Wow. I havn't been keeping my eyes on sales figures but i'd suggest that ignoring a few well-done concept driven games, for the big sellers most of the basic concepts could be generated by 3 year olds. The story writers and the polish on both the media and code on these games are what makes them shine
Anyone with a single creative bone in their body, with a little time on their hands, can come up with awesome ideas from games. Talk is cheap, it's the 3 years of production time that is hard.
Language is democratic. That is why we have my proper nouns than just "Ug"
It's not the freedoms i get i'm worried about, but other coders' freedom to fork the project and make other stuff. Also, like BeOS, if Opera the company packs it in, where are you then?
Mostly, i'm concerned about the "Freedom" to not be left high and dry.
Don't forget, there's a lot of students with easy access to multimillion dollar equipment, this is, essentially, how the xbox got hacked (a couple of the times).
Dude, ITS LINUX, I think the delays MIGHT BE CONFIGURABLE.
Erm, lemme guess, you use KDE?
Heh, that site you mentioned, registered to Dynadot Privacy really smacks of a Grass Roots campaign by interested parties. I was particularly amused by the popup that was essentially an image of a firefox crash. It didn't even do anything interesting when clicked on.
People using "I could care less" generally state they meant "I could care less, but it would be quite difficult indeed", or that it is meant sarcastically, which is pretty much an accepted argument. Unfortunately i think (annoyingly) this one is a lost cause.
Or America, or pretty much any country The british empire started colonising and couldn't generate enough immigrant labour to get things moving.
I don't think this one will take off, most of the flash devs are graphic designers and really aren't that excited (In general) to move to the next big thing if it means re-learning a bunch of stuff to do the same thing. Also they are a lot less prone to move to the Next Big Microsoft thing, and more likely to want stuff that works on a mac. Just my experience
I'm sure there's still a couple of independent games around
eh, you shouldn't need to copy it you should just be able to stream it off of wherever it is.
Depends on your country, in aus it's a lot harder (outside of capital cities) to get that kind of bandwidth, and it's hard to find it cheap anywhere at all. This kind of home media box config will still be interesting to a lot of people in higher bandwidth cost countries for a few years yet.
Actually he stated in this interview (Pretty much in a reversal of all his previous ranting) that all he wanted to do was stop these games getting into the hands of minors.
For starters, i don't think kids can earn 6 figure salaries for learning C, mebee when they're 40. Also: Crossword puzzles? Old apps? wtf? All that coding seems to have rotted your brain.
interesting idea, except you can simply rename it as a .jpg and ie will handily go "Hangon, this is a wmf file, i know what to do this... Root your box!"
No, that covers the lesbians and the batshit fucking insane crowds.
I really disagree with what you're saying here.
For starters: Wikipedia isn't a newspaper, it's an encyclopedia. Also, most mildly impartial comparisons (if they even exist) of veracity between W.P and other printed encyclopedias tend to come out in favour of wiki on an article by article average, so (kind of) therefore it has achieved it's goals and is a very useful source of information (unlike most opinion columns which have none of the benefits of even being anything other than inflamatory).
I think a lot of people who think Wiki to the Pedia is crap place too much weight on information being either right or wrong. No information on any mildly complicated or especially political matter is either, it simply has varying levels of verifiability or social acceptance (which, i think, will be the route the Wikipedia will have to take; some kind of voting for edits system which will probably stagnate the whole thing for a while till it gets streamlined; but i digress).
The secondary (and in my opionion the most important) thing about the grand wiki is that it is entirely digitised and free. This may not seem like a great thing, but it is. My Holy Fuck it is. You start to see streams of info intermesh where it touches; Information may want to be free but divinity wants it well organised.
I actually find it a heck of a lot easier to set up automatically resizing stuff in tables, i used to do a lot of web dev (now moved on) and my co-worker loved to set everything to a fixed size cause he had a lot of trouble making stuff more dynamic with css. I just used a couple tables and everything was smooth as silk.
This just in: Games based on movies (To a large extent) suck.