... for kid's games, online gambling, and other games that not-so-tech-savvy people will play. I can't see Doom 4 including pop-ups or adware.
It's sad that marketing has been reduced to a dog-eat-dog race for saturation. They're just going off of the pure statistical likelyhood that X% will click an ad.
How about making a decent product/service that I actually want?!?!?!?!?
This is my first/. post, so Mods be kind;-)
Software development in general (OSS/CSS) is this strange blend between an authoring craft and highly structured engineering practice. Throw into that the fact that its growing wildly everday, and it causes confusion about what the best practices.
I think that corporate internal projects could be greatly improved by adding OSS inspired practices. However, I don't think institutionalizing OSS for the corporate/market driven world is the end all answer to fixing all of the "users are restless" problems.
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... for kid's games, online gambling, and other games that not-so-tech-savvy people will play. I can't see Doom 4 including pop-ups or adware. It's sad that marketing has been reduced to a dog-eat-dog race for saturation. They're just going off of the pure statistical likelyhood that X% will click an ad. How about making a decent product/service that I actually want?!?!?!?!?
They might end up in a federal "pound-me-in-the-ass" prison though.
This is my first /. post, so Mods be kind ;-)
Software development in general (OSS/CSS) is this strange blend between an authoring craft and highly structured engineering practice. Throw into that the fact that its growing wildly everday, and it causes confusion about what the best practices.
I think that corporate internal projects could be greatly improved by adding OSS inspired practices. However, I don't think institutionalizing OSS for the corporate/market driven world is the end all answer to fixing all of the "users are restless" problems.