They'd love to, but apparently the judge likes telling Samsung what evidence they can't present. Refer to the Groklaw article linked to from/. a day or two ago.
Would now be a bad time to point out that I got Arkham Asylum GOTY, Arkham City and all its DLC, and Gotham City Impostors and all its DLC all for $25 through Steam a few weeks ago?
Simple: You'd need to lower the price to increase demand in order to cover your fixed costs (the costs you have regardless of the number of units sold).
If you can't cover your fixed and variable costs based on the demand for your products, kiss your business goodbye... or try to get the government to give you a bailout.
I'm surprised no one pointed this out yet, but different game stores use different programming languages.
For example:
Xbox Live Arcade - C# with XNA for Indie games, C++ for standard games (I think...)
iOS (iPhone/iPad) - Objective C, and you'll need a Mac with XCode to develop for it.
PS3/Wii - C++, but as far as I can tell, they do not make Indie development easy.
Windows/Mac/Linux - Any language that will run on them. The most widely used languages for each platform are likely C++ for Windows, Objective C for Mac, and C for Linux.
Yes, and Microsoft can use their cash mountain to "encourage" developers to use the app store, even running it at a loss for a while in order to destroy Valve's business.
Last I heard, the MS app store only hosts those godawful Metro apps.
The strange part is that buying a 3-license upgrade only costs $26 more than the 1-license upgrade. So, even if you have 2 computers you want to upgrade...
As a counterpoint, TFA said that their OpenGL port of L4D2 on Windows ran faster than the DirectX version.
Which makes me wonder where Valve is hiding the OpenGL for Windows version... as far as I'm aware, all of Valve's Source games for Windows require DirectX 9.0c.
That's because the games were designed to run on consoles too. But e.g. that top notch card has EIGHTY(80!) times the graphics performance of a XBox360. If it doesn't run at 300 fps, then there's something seriously wrong with the game engine/drivers. ^^
Arkham City was technically designed for consoles, but on a PC with an i7 2600k CPU and dual nVidia 570s in an SLI configuration on a 1920x1200 display, enabling DX11 Tessellation in the Arkham City graphics configuration screen (everything else is maxed) results in an instant drop in framerate to around 40FPS.
If you haven't noticed, Valve stopped making games a while ago and instead became a content whoring system. One game every 5+ years doesn't make you a game developer IMHO.
They released a game last year (Portal 2) and have two more games in private beta right now (DOTA 2 and CS:GO).
Yeah... but since 2007 or so they've done hardly anything with the engine (apart from building new content for it, of course.)
To be fair, they're testing this with a game released in 2009 that's using the 2008ish Left 4 Dead game engine.
I know I haven't kept track of what was added in the latest engines (Portal 2, DOTA2 Beta, CS:GO Beta)... although the only update Wikipedia mentions is the cloth simulation in DOTA2.
Travel was a pain in the backside. Azeroth is cut up into fairly large chunks - you can go an awfully long way without ever seeing a loading screen. In ToR, the world was split up into planets and getting between them was an absolute pain. Space-ports served no purpose other than to act as irritating timesinks.
To put this into perspective: After 3 expansions, WoW has 5 continents: Kalimdor, Eastern Kingdoms, Outland (BC), Northrend (WotLK), and the area under the sea... Vashj'ir, I think (Cataclysm).
Having said that, there may be portals for the areas on the map that exist in Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms that were added in Cataclysm, I don't recall.
Other than that, the only load screens are instance portals.
Maybe that should judge should learn how court cases work before she presides over this case. If they say XXXXX cannot be administered as evidence and then you show it anyway, you instantly land somewhere between a mistrial and losing the case.
Losing it for what, attempting to show blocked evidence? For that matter, a mistrial would clearly help Samsung at this point, and if the judge really is biased against them, she wouldn't want to do that.
You mean to tell me that this account with no other posts, who has nothing bad to say about using an as-yet-unreleased product, lies about the competitors features, and also implies that the aforementioned competitors url (email with the first letter changed) is hard to remember is a shill?
I don't know what the Horrible Singing Blog is, and it may indeed turn out to be one of the canonical and transcendental works art in Western Civilization, but statistically 100% of artists (+ or -.1%) do their work for free every day. This Josh Whedon needs to be the exception? Really?
I assume the phrasing "they all deserve a little pay-back [sic]*" is referring to it being a good show. And it is a good show, and some of us would like to see more like it.
Disclaimer: I purchased both the DVD and music CD.
* pay-back has a negative connotation and should be phrased differently.
I'll take that over Microsoft's Vista, which took 5 years to arrive after XP landed.
To be fair, XP did have two service packs in the interim, the second of which added a few new things: Windows Firewall (as crappy as it is), support for the NX bit, limiting raw sockets, WPA support for WiFi, and Bluetooth support (although I heard it was kinda flaky). Oh and a popup blocker for IE6 (this was back when people still used IE).
steam forced me into it by making shit so cheap i had to buy it!!:D
Well, back in 2010 for the Mac launch, they made one of their previous hit games free as long as you added it to a Steam account during the month of May.
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They'd love to, but apparently the judge likes telling Samsung what evidence they can't present. Refer to the Groklaw article linked to from /. a day or two ago.
And yet .... Google is the one with the 50 mil to do the buying.
...by having a near monopoly in the online advertising business, not because of their software business.
With the source code now available, it is hoped that online play that isn't dependent on WON servers will be implemented
It's a shame WON no longer operates.
Oh wait, it does, it's just called Steam now. Unfortunately, it sounds like the network protocol used may have changed between WON and Steam.
Would now be a bad time to point out that I got Arkham Asylum GOTY, Arkham City and all its DLC, and Gotham City Impostors and all its DLC all for $25 through Steam a few weeks ago?
Simple: You'd need to lower the price to increase demand in order to cover your fixed costs (the costs you have regardless of the number of units sold).
If you can't cover your fixed and variable costs based on the demand for your products, kiss your business goodbye... or try to get the government to give you a bailout.
I'm surprised no one pointed this out yet, but different game stores use different programming languages.
For example:
Xbox Live Arcade - C# with XNA for Indie games, C++ for standard games (I think...)
iOS (iPhone/iPad) - Objective C, and you'll need a Mac with XCode to develop for it.
PS3/Wii - C++, but as far as I can tell, they do not make Indie development easy.
Windows/Mac/Linux - Any language that will run on them. The most widely used languages for each platform are likely C++ for Windows, Objective C for Mac, and C for Linux.
Yes, and Microsoft can use their cash mountain to "encourage" developers to use the app store, even running it at a loss for a while in order to destroy Valve's business.
Last I heard, the MS app store only hosts those godawful Metro apps.
Good luck getting developers to support that!
The strange part is that buying a 3-license upgrade only costs $26 more than the 1-license upgrade. So, even if you have 2 computers you want to upgrade...
As a counterpoint, TFA said that their OpenGL port of L4D2 on Windows ran faster than the DirectX version.
Which makes me wonder where Valve is hiding the OpenGL for Windows version... as far as I'm aware, all of Valve's Source games for Windows require DirectX 9.0c.
and I can max out every game I have.
That's because the games were designed to run on consoles too. But e.g. that top notch card has EIGHTY(80!) times the graphics performance of a XBox360.
If it doesn't run at 300 fps, then there's something seriously wrong with the game engine/drivers. ^^
Arkham City was technically designed for consoles, but on a PC with an i7 2600k CPU and dual nVidia 570s in an SLI configuration on a 1920x1200 display, enabling DX11 Tessellation in the Arkham City graphics configuration screen (everything else is maxed) results in an instant drop in framerate to around 40FPS.
If you haven't noticed, Valve stopped making games a while ago and instead became a content whoring system. One game every 5+ years doesn't make you a game developer IMHO.
They released a game last year (Portal 2) and have two more games in private beta right now (DOTA 2 and CS:GO).
Windows loves developers, OS X hates developers, Linux IS developers.
OS X hates developers so much that it gives it's development tools away for free.
...but only if you own a Mac. Which makes sense for OSX tools, but that also applies to iOS tools...
And are you implying that you can't get Microsoft's development tools for free?
Yeah... but since 2007 or so they've done hardly anything with the engine (apart from building new content for it, of course.)
To be fair, they're testing this with a game released in 2009 that's using the 2008ish Left 4 Dead game engine.
I know I haven't kept track of what was added in the latest engines (Portal 2, DOTA2 Beta, CS:GO Beta)... although the only update Wikipedia mentions is the cloth simulation in DOTA2.
Travel was a pain in the backside. Azeroth is cut up into fairly large chunks - you can go an awfully long way without ever seeing a loading screen. In ToR, the world was split up into planets and getting between them was an absolute pain. Space-ports served no purpose other than to act as irritating timesinks.
To put this into perspective: After 3 expansions, WoW has 5 continents:
Kalimdor, Eastern Kingdoms, Outland (BC), Northrend (WotLK), and the area under the sea... Vashj'ir, I think (Cataclysm).
Having said that, there may be portals for the areas on the map that exist in Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms that were added in Cataclysm, I don't recall.
Other than that, the only load screens are instance portals.
SWTOR punished me greatly for this because aside from the minimally detailed class quests, all the side quests were EXACTLY the same.
Yes, at least with WoW you could skip the cutscenes some quests had. Also, you generally had a choice of which areas you wanted to visit to level up.
The downside is that WoW gutted the class-specific quests before Wrath of the Lich King came out.
Having said that, I'm not currently playing WoW either, and even a new expansion coming later this month isn't going to draw me back.
Maybe that should judge should learn how court cases work before she presides over this case. If they say XXXXX cannot be administered as evidence and then you show it anyway, you instantly land somewhere between a mistrial and losing the case.
Losing it for what, attempting to show blocked evidence? For that matter, a mistrial would clearly help Samsung at this point, and if the judge really is biased against them, she wouldn't want to do that.
Er... I just now noticed it ate my < I meant <3 Felicia Day.
Not that 3 Felicia Days would be bad...
You mean to tell me that this account with no other posts, who has nothing bad to say about using an as-yet-unreleased product, lies about the competitors features, and also implies that the aforementioned competitors url (email with the first letter changed) is hard to remember is a shill?
I never would have guessed!
I wonder which future NASA project will be narrated by Jeri Ryan
Back when Voyager was created, Uranus was the 7th of the 9 planets in the Solar System.
Therefore, she'll narrate when NASA goes to probe Uranus.
One of Wil Wheaton's current projects is his Tabletop board game show that appears bi-weekly on Fridays on the geekandsundry Youtube channel.
Speaking of Geek and Sundry... it's Felicia Day's channel. 3 Felicia Day
Whats left of the WB
and UPN.
I don't know what the Horrible Singing Blog is, and it may indeed turn out to be one of the canonical and transcendental works art in Western Civilization, but statistically 100% of artists (+ or - .1%) do their work for free every day. This Josh Whedon needs to be the exception? Really?
I assume the phrasing "they all deserve a little pay-back [sic]*" is referring to it being a good show. And it is a good show, and some of us would like to see more like it.
Disclaimer: I purchased both the DVD and music CD.
* pay-back has a negative connotation and should be phrased differently.
I hate to say it... the lyric timing is wrong in one section.
"is filled with adverts most inane" vs. "if I throw poison in the water main"
"is filled with" matches to "if I throw" and "most inane" matches to "the water main"
Which means that "adverts" (2 syllables) has to match "poison in the" (4 syllables).
TL;DR "adverts" needs to be "advertisements" to match the cadence of the original lyrics.
I'll take that over Microsoft's Vista, which took 5 years to arrive after XP landed.
To be fair, XP did have two service packs in the interim, the second of which added a few new things: Windows Firewall (as crappy as it is), support for the NX bit, limiting raw sockets, WPA support for WiFi, and Bluetooth support (although I heard it was kinda flaky). Oh and a popup blocker for IE6 (this was back when people still used IE).
steam forced me into it by making shit so cheap i had to buy it!! :D
Well, back in 2010 for the Mac launch, they made one of their previous hit games free as long as you added it to a Steam account during the month of May.
After all, the first hit is free...