That's why I prefer to work with iOS development, because they do listen to developers and take into account feedback or concerns, and really change fundamental policy instead of continuing said policy just because it exists as so many other companies would do
Way to drink the kool-aid.
I prefer working on platforms that have no enforcement policies on my coding style decisions at all and let me write code the way I want, when I want, and run the code I feel like running too.
Sorry I was off. I knew it was around there but I really was close. According to Engadget, you're looking at about $2000 for a PS3 dev unit as of March 2009. It may be less now.
Your belief that knowledge must be tested is what exactly? What about your definition of "meaningful"? What makes philisophical concepts you dismiss non-meaningful? And those are all philosophical questions I'm tired of asking of people who don't realize their beliefs and prejudices matter.
I always enjoy a minor philisophical debate about the nature of a belief in science with such people. Even simple questions about the nature of science very quickly become philosophy... often unrecognized.
You should know Sony isn't against anyone doing homebrew, look at the minis program for example. What Sony's doing is protecting their system from piracy so that they can leverage sales to developers, not you and I.
The theory is that developers don't want to make games for a system that is easily used for piracy and thus Sony makes some level of guarantee that they won't allow piracy to the best of their ability and by increasing legitimate sales for their partners, they gain more games with higher costs of development.
If you want to make your own games on your own PS3, pay up the $1000 or so for a dev unit and go at it.
If you mean only your own as a developer using the software to make other software with, you may be correct.
If you mean humanity on the whole, well that's what those restrictions in the GPL are for. To make the software as free as possible to as many as possible by sometimes restricting the freedom of an individual for the good of the whole.
Yeah my wife and I have often wondered how it is that dentistry and eyecare aren't part of OHIP here in Ontario (that's the province-wide government insurance plan that pays for health care for those elsewhere).
My wife's insurance policy through work covers us both for up to $150 in eyewear, a free checkup every 2 years and about $1000/yr in dentistry so we're not hard up, but I'd think basic dentistry and eye care should be covered for everyone just like broken fingers and other non-life-threatening health inconveniences.
I pay only $20/mo for my (legal) satellite feed, including HD support. I watch more than 20 episodes of TV shows a month total. I can't imagine this pricing being worthwhile to anyone except very casually.
While I wish I could enjoy the humour of your comment from up here in Commie Canada, we have to pay for our own ambulance service as well in many cases.
And what makes you the arbiter of taste? As one very high class chef once said on the radio, "I cannot criticize McDonald's until I too can claim to have served over a billion satisfied customers who continually return for my food."
That said, you also don't seem to have any clue about who uses Foursquare, and who doesn't. By and large, very few of the people I see checked into Foursquare are under 30. Your mileage however, may vary.
How ABS is implemented in general is all that really matters for the 99% of people who drive a car with those ABS implementations. The rest I won't bother arguing with.
I'm sure you think you know everything, but in fact, ABS is notoriously bad at detecting the difference between slip conditions.
Snow, gravel, sand, water, ice, mud, loose material on a solid surface, etc. are all much more rapidly detected by the driver.
Proper driver training and threshold braking nearly always results in a better stopping distance. Electronic traction systems tied to ABS may add additional cornering functionality and one-wheel-slip situations that aren't normally handled, but as I said elsewhere, I'd more often than not turn them off in certain adverse situations.
My friend's car won't even go uphill in the winter if he doesn't have brand new tires on because the on-board traction system believes his slightly-smaller-radius tires are slipping more than they are. Genius. Do the math yourself; that would be an easy mistake to make.
Speeding without causing any damage or accidents and then bragging about it is evidence that speeding isn't always dangerous and that sometimes our speed limits are stupidly low.
For a thought experiement, if you do not admit to speeding, how do you argue that driving over the current speed limit could possibly be safe if you believe they should be raised?
It wasn't even pseudo-intellectual. The reviewer in question couldn't figure out how to get Doom running on his PC without using a Flash port online, and then had to look up maps online as well as cheat codes.
Note to self: if this guy enjoyed a game, it was probably way too easy.
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Way to drink the kool-aid.
I prefer working on platforms that have no enforcement policies on my coding style decisions at all and let me write code the way I want, when I want, and run the code I feel like running too.
People are much more willing to pay $100/mo to their cable company for TV shows than for Internet access it would seem.
If cable companies just bundled TV access with Internet and only chaged for the Internet part, they might make a boat load of cash.
Sorry I was off. I knew it was around there but I really was close. According to Engadget, you're looking at about $2000 for a PS3 dev unit as of March 2009. It may be less now.
Your belief that knowledge must be tested is what exactly? What about your definition of "meaningful"? What makes philisophical concepts you dismiss non-meaningful? And those are all philosophical questions I'm tired of asking of people who don't realize their beliefs and prejudices matter.
I always enjoy a minor philisophical debate about the nature of a belief in science with such people. Even simple questions about the nature of science very quickly become philosophy ... often unrecognized.
The OtherOS feature was used to find a way to start work on a real jailbreak for the PS3. I'm pretty sure that's what got it eliminated.
That in combination with user popularity.
Considering the titles i've seen in the minis, and back on the PS2 for that matter, I doubt they turn away many titles at all.
No. They added a paid service with additional content options, but the original functionality of the PSN is still free, as they promised.
You should know Sony isn't against anyone doing homebrew, look at the minis program for example. What Sony's doing is protecting their system from piracy so that they can leverage sales to developers, not you and I.
The theory is that developers don't want to make games for a system that is easily used for piracy and thus Sony makes some level of guarantee that they won't allow piracy to the best of their ability and by increasing legitimate sales for their partners, they gain more games with higher costs of development.
If you want to make your own games on your own PS3, pay up the $1000 or so for a dev unit and go at it.
And the percentage of lines of code written on each of those platforms is what exactly compared to the total?
Python frequently does do the job. So does PERL, or AWK or other interpretive languages.
For the record, and I always find this interesting, Jak & Daxter for the PS2 was written in LISP.
It entirely depends on whose freedom you mean.
If you mean only your own as a developer using the software to make other software with, you may be correct.
If you mean humanity on the whole, well that's what those restrictions in the GPL are for. To make the software as free as possible to as many as possible by sometimes restricting the freedom of an individual for the good of the whole.
Around 10% of that.
Its still heavily covered by government assistance.
See this reply for a full response.
Yeah my wife and I have often wondered how it is that dentistry and eyecare aren't part of OHIP here in Ontario (that's the province-wide government insurance plan that pays for health care for those elsewhere).
My wife's insurance policy through work covers us both for up to $150 in eyewear, a free checkup every 2 years and about $1000/yr in dentistry so we're not hard up, but I'd think basic dentistry and eye care should be covered for everyone just like broken fingers and other non-life-threatening health inconveniences.
I pay only $20/mo for my (legal) satellite feed, including HD support. I watch more than 20 episodes of TV shows a month total. I can't imagine this pricing being worthwhile to anyone except very casually.
If you don't think the PATRIOT act looks a lot like an allergic reaction, you need to look at it again.
While I wish I could enjoy the humour of your comment from up here in Commie Canada, we have to pay for our own ambulance service as well in many cases.
And what makes you the arbiter of taste? As one very high class chef once said on the radio, "I cannot criticize McDonald's until I too can claim to have served over a billion satisfied customers who continually return for my food."
That said, you also don't seem to have any clue about who uses Foursquare, and who doesn't. By and large, very few of the people I see checked into Foursquare are under 30. Your mileage however, may vary.
How ABS is implemented in general is all that really matters for the 99% of people who drive a car with those ABS implementations. The rest I won't bother arguing with.
I'm sure you think you know everything, but in fact, ABS is notoriously bad at detecting the difference between slip conditions.
Snow, gravel, sand, water, ice, mud, loose material on a solid surface, etc. are all much more rapidly detected by the driver.
Proper driver training and threshold braking nearly always results in a better stopping distance. Electronic traction systems tied to ABS may add additional cornering functionality and one-wheel-slip situations that aren't normally handled, but as I said elsewhere, I'd more often than not turn them off in certain adverse situations.
My friend's car won't even go uphill in the winter if he doesn't have brand new tires on because the on-board traction system believes his slightly-smaller-radius tires are slipping more than they are. Genius. Do the math yourself; that would be an easy mistake to make.
My comments on Slashdot reflect myself as a person. I have no qualms about that association whatsoever.
What I choose to post on Slashdot may reflect on my concern for privacy. My registration here as a user does not.
Were Slashdot slightly more edgy, like say (nsfw) alt.com, I probably wouldn't use my real name.
Canada, its not exactly mandatory as I understand it, but there's some link between your registration and recalls.
See the Riding on Air guide by the government of Canada (registration notice just before the next section).
High rate of speed means speed.
High rate of change of speed means acceleration.
"Rate of speed" is redundant, but still means speed, not acceleration.
As a blanket statement, I disagree with you.
Speeding without causing any damage or accidents and then bragging about it is evidence that speeding isn't always dangerous and that sometimes our speed limits are stupidly low.
For a thought experiement, if you do not admit to speeding, how do you argue that driving over the current speed limit could possibly be safe if you believe they should be raised?
He attends Quakecon and writes for Kotaku; I expect him to know what a sprite is.
It wasn't even pseudo-intellectual. The reviewer in question couldn't figure out how to get Doom running on his PC without using a Flash port online, and then had to look up maps online as well as cheat codes.
Note to self: if this guy enjoyed a game, it was probably way too easy.