I like the idea you propose - of a directly consumer funded operation. However, what prevents the game that X number of gamers funded from being pirated?
I've been using.Net for the past 3 years professionally. I have never had to make a Win32 API call.
What were you calling the API for during your development? I do know one guy here who had to, but that was for a special case where he was developing his own custom components to replace the standard windows ones. That was also outside of work. In my experience,.Net isn't half bad. I prefer Java, but they two languages are essentially equivalent - minus the whole platform portability thing.
It saves you the build/configure time, the form factor is pretty convenient, and the power consumption of these little toaster boxes tend to be less than that of a rig most people are likely to build for a custom NAS. Of course, I am somewhat biased, as I bought one of these:)
Note: I purchased this product back when Infrant was still separate from Netgear, so the info may be a bit outdated.
From my experience with this product, it does exactly as it says. Its just a file server, nothing more. I have it mounted via NFS or CIFS on my linux boxes, CIFS on the windows boxes, and AFP on the mac mini in front of the TV. I encode my media on the linux boxes, and fire up front row on the mac, and it all works seamlessly.
Of course, I haven't taken firmware updates since Netgear took over, so they may have gimped some of the awesomeness. From what the product page describes, however, they couldn't have gimped much.
He did say "have had", so I suppose I assumed he didn't currently have it. He also called it a POS, so I also assumed he felt it was lacking in some respect:)
I own the Treo 755p, and I feel as though I must put forth my own anecdotal evidence since it contradicts yours. It not only has never dropped calls, but it also has the best reception of any phone I have owned previously. This may very well have more to do with Sprints network than the Treo itself, but still... your assertion that the Treo is a POS is quite the exaggeration from my experience.
It has crashed, I will admit to that. However, all of the crashes were directly attributable to me running a third party app. I gladly accept this as simply part of the territory, since the Treo isn't locked up like the iPhone. I rather like the ability to write my own apps, and download others. Its kind of like a PDA or something that way.
The Treo does meet all of your 'must haves', as far as I am aware. I think you might be being a bit too harsh on it.
Generally those touch screens aren't made of apple's signature uber-shiny plastic, that attracts dirt, oil and scratches like no other. Despite taking very good care of my iPod nano, only a year after I purchased it the screen is extremely difficult to read without the backlight on.
A few points I feel the need to bring up. First, you don't have to pay for it - just like RedHat, there is paid supported version (with proprietary drivers and stuff), and a free version for everyone else. Second, they money does help. Mandriva's hardware support beats out every other distro I have used. I popped it in my shiny new (formerly windows) dev box, and it recognized everything, installed, and worked. No other distro could do that - generally the display crapped out.
Not always... I know I sometimes have to mask my useragent as IE in order to make things work in Opera. Id wager some portion of users likely just keep it flipped to IE mode for convenience.
What about me as an individual? Say I come up with something, patent it, then try to pitch the idea to a company. If I were to only have a 1 year patent claim, any sane company would just wait the year and then jump on it.
Patents (in theory) protect individuals as much as companies. I agree that the current patent law needs reforming, but a 1 year patent sounds kind of foolish.
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Personally, I just let the development tools manage my local workspace. They generally do a better job anyway, since they know what you are doing to it. Eclipse is my favorite tool because of this - it has local file history (with versions you can inspect, compare, and revert to) as well as undo history for all of the refactorings you have been doing (Java only, so far...).
This paired with SVN or CVS solves all my problems with local workspace revisioning.
While I could be mistaken, I believe thats how VSS tracks file versions. Its not smart enough to store diffs, so it just has a giant repository of incrimenting file versions - and none of them are named properly. It has some strange internal and cryptic database system that stores the real file's name, so just glancing at the actual contents of the VSS server will get you billions of jibberish files.
I agree with your statements in general. I have projects at work that use VSS, and some in CVS / SVN. VSS sucks. However, you mention your solution is web based - so I assume it isn't C++ (which I assume the legacy system is, since you mention.h). I would wager the fact that you are using a more modern language and tools probably helped out a wee bit.
Again, not to discount your point - VSS sucks, hard - but I don't think we can take the discrepancy in time as purely due to the difference in version control.
With the obscene amount of fireworks sold every year around the fourth of July, you figure humans kind of like to see things go boom. A car erupting into a massive fireball is a pretty big firecracker. Chemical reactions are pretty.
Not to beat a dead horse too much, but Iraq is pretty much just the United States. Sure, you have handfulls of assorted other countries... but nothing significant. Thats still going on, so I would say its in the realm of "recent".
Opera dropped the ad supported thing - its free again now, and still about as tiny. It also has something like a plugin architecture going... but nowhere near what firefox has... still fun to play with, though.
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I like the idea you propose - of a directly consumer funded operation. However, what prevents the game that X number of gamers funded from being pirated?
Not all arcades ... the overwhelming majority, yes, but select examples exist with analog joystick control.
http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=7871
I believe they tried that with their E For All. It failed spectacularly, from what I remember.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimus_Maximus_keyboard
I've been using .Net for the past 3 years professionally. I have never had to make a Win32 API call.
.Net isn't half bad. I prefer Java, but they two languages are essentially equivalent - minus the whole platform portability thing.
What were you calling the API for during your development? I do know one guy here who had to, but that was for a special case where he was developing his own custom components to replace the standard windows ones. That was also outside of work. In my experience,
Kind of like grabbing a greyhound, amtrak or any of the major airlines ... well, admittedly the last one is much less convenient post 9/11.
It saves you the build/configure time, the form factor is pretty convenient, and the power consumption of these little toaster boxes tend to be less than that of a rig most people are likely to build for a custom NAS. Of course, I am somewhat biased, as I bought one of these :)
Note: I purchased this product back when Infrant was still separate from Netgear, so the info may be a bit outdated.
From my experience with this product, it does exactly as it says. Its just a file server, nothing more. I have it mounted via NFS or CIFS on my linux boxes, CIFS on the windows boxes, and AFP on the mac mini in front of the TV. I encode my media on the linux boxes, and fire up front row on the mac, and it all works seamlessly.
Of course, I haven't taken firmware updates since Netgear took over, so they may have gimped some of the awesomeness. From what the product page describes, however, they couldn't have gimped much.
He did say "have had", so I suppose I assumed he didn't currently have it. He also called it a POS, so I also assumed he felt it was lacking in some respect :)
Eclipse has been running on the Mac for quite some time now, IIRC. This news post lacks news.
I own the Treo 755p, and I feel as though I must put forth my own anecdotal evidence since it contradicts yours. It not only has never dropped calls, but it also has the best reception of any phone I have owned previously. This may very well have more to do with Sprints network than the Treo itself, but still ... your assertion that the Treo is a POS is quite the exaggeration from my experience.
It has crashed, I will admit to that. However, all of the crashes were directly attributable to me running a third party app. I gladly accept this as simply part of the territory, since the Treo isn't locked up like the iPhone. I rather like the ability to write my own apps, and download others. Its kind of like a PDA or something that way.
The Treo does meet all of your 'must haves', as far as I am aware. I think you might be being a bit too harsh on it.
Or you simply have different target numbers for women ...
Actually ... according to the novels, she lives in a socket at the base of your skull.
Generally those touch screens aren't made of apple's signature uber-shiny plastic, that attracts dirt, oil and scratches like no other. Despite taking very good care of my iPod nano, only a year after I purchased it the screen is extremely difficult to read without the backlight on.
A few points I feel the need to bring up. First, you don't have to pay for it - just like RedHat, there is paid supported version (with proprietary drivers and stuff), and a free version for everyone else. Second, they money does help. Mandriva's hardware support beats out every other distro I have used. I popped it in my shiny new (formerly windows) dev box, and it recognized everything, installed, and worked. No other distro could do that - generally the display crapped out.
Not always ... I know I sometimes have to mask my useragent as IE in order to make things work in Opera. Id wager some portion of users likely just keep it flipped to IE mode for convenience.
Use Opera - problem solved.
All kidding aside, Opera does have awesome bookmark handling. Its sidebar is quite handy for organizing things.
What about me as an individual? Say I come up with something, patent it, then try to pitch the idea to a company. If I were to only have a 1 year patent claim, any sane company would just wait the year and then jump on it.
Patents (in theory) protect individuals as much as companies. I agree that the current patent law needs reforming, but a 1 year patent sounds kind of foolish.
Personally, I just let the development tools manage my local workspace. They generally do a better job anyway, since they know what you are doing to it. Eclipse is my favorite tool because of this - it has local file history (with versions you can inspect, compare, and revert to) as well as undo history for all of the refactorings you have been doing (Java only, so far ...).
This paired with SVN or CVS solves all my problems with local workspace revisioning.
While I could be mistaken, I believe thats how VSS tracks file versions. Its not smart enough to store diffs, so it just has a giant repository of incrimenting file versions - and none of them are named properly. It has some strange internal and cryptic database system that stores the real file's name, so just glancing at the actual contents of the VSS server will get you billions of jibberish files.
Worst. Product. Ever.
I agree with your statements in general. I have projects at work that use VSS, and some in CVS / SVN. VSS sucks. However, you mention your solution is web based - so I assume it isn't C++ (which I assume the legacy system is, since you mention .h). I would wager the fact that you are using a more modern language and tools probably helped out a wee bit.
Again, not to discount your point - VSS sucks, hard - but I don't think we can take the discrepancy in time as purely due to the difference in version control.
With the obscene amount of fireworks sold every year around the fourth of July, you figure humans kind of like to see things go boom. A car erupting into a massive fireball is a pretty big firecracker. Chemical reactions are pretty.
While the other titles may have those issues, almost all the Super Mario games have been significantly different than their predecessors.
Not to beat a dead horse too much, but Iraq is pretty much just the United States. Sure, you have handfulls of assorted other countries ... but nothing significant. Thats still going on, so I would say its in the realm of "recent".
Opera dropped the ad supported thing - its free again now, and still about as tiny. It also has something like a plugin architecture going ... but nowhere near what firefox has ... still fun to play with, though.