Yup you're right. I don't really follow the mergers or failures of games companies I just play the games.
My view the games industry is that when there is a recession then the entertainment industry generally is the only market that stays afloat due to the need for people to escape. So I assumed (obviously wrongly) that the games industry would be in pretty good shape.
Besides I thought it'd be a good intro to the article;)
I must tend to agree. I believe the majority of the bloat in the programs these days comes from the languages used. Granted the compilers are pretty good at optimising the output from the languages but the techniques utilised to improve maintainability and extensibility lead to larger programs.
I'm sure that the reason is that developers have a lot more memory and processing power to play with these days and as a result don't spend as much time in optimisation.
But then again, a lot of the bloat in programs like Word are for features that only so called 'power users' will use. If these were removed then the size would be greatly reduced. However, you'd get a backlash from the power users asking where their favorite function had gone. Maybe they could release a lite version and a power version (Maybe they do?)
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Ironically, when compressing a file containing just '42' (using winzip, sorry) the resultant file is 112 bytes compared to the 'uncompressed' 2 bytes
Perhaps this should be another entry to this poll then?
According to this on USA Today The rumours of Tobey's non appearance in the second Spidey film are greatly exaggerated.
it was a government donation
Yup you're right. I don't really follow the mergers or failures of games companies I just play the games.
My view the games industry is that when there is a recession then the entertainment industry generally is the only market that stays afloat due to the need for people to escape. So I assumed (obviously wrongly) that the games industry would be in pretty good shape.
Besides I thought it'd be a good intro to the article ;)
I must tend to agree. I believe the majority of the bloat in the programs these days comes from the languages used. Granted the compilers are pretty good at optimising the output from the languages but the techniques utilised to improve maintainability and extensibility lead to larger programs.
I'm sure that the reason is that developers have a lot more memory and processing power to play with these days and as a result don't spend as much time in optimisation.
But then again, a lot of the bloat in programs like Word are for features that only so called 'power users' will use. If these were removed then the size would be greatly reduced. However, you'd get a backlash from the power users asking where their favorite function had gone. Maybe they could release a lite version and a power version (Maybe they do?)