Being intimately familiar with the Mac game market , 1000 copies sold for the Mac for original titles (see the top 10 on macgamefiles.com) is considered a hit. AAA titles might be another story, but dont assume because tens of thousands of copies are sold in one market that a smaller market should do ok. I made this mistake myself so it is understandable for you to make the assumption. Original mac programs like delicious monsters Delicious Library are where you usually find success stories on the Mac market. This does not mean that games should not be released for the Mac, thats what we do!!! But we usually shoulder the cost of the port for a royalty down the road. This basically means we have to port as many titles as possible, hopefully from the same developer (they tend to reuse code). In other words, you have to be fast on your feet as well as skilled on both platforms to do this sort of work and you need to love the Mac! I have not witnessed anyone getting rich (I made a lot more money working as a senior engineer for IBM).
Adam Hall/PolyEx Software
http://www.polyex.com/
As a developer who ports products to Macintosh - http://www.polyex.com/ I can tell you that porting a commercial product can sometimes be more difficult than what appears on the surface. Even if you take out obvious problems like the game is using Microsoft specific technologies like Direct X, etc. Some developers use huge in house libraries that will also need to be ported (or at least some of the functionality replicated) as well as 3rd party libs that may not even have the source available. With the Mac especially, endian issues crop up and have the potential to complicate things as they tend to only show up at runtime which requires a full QA cycle that goes perhaps deeper than originally thought. You even have to be aware of incompatibilities between VC++ and gcc, where VC++ some times lets people get away with murder.
Ideally,you also want the game to take advantage of unique ways the Mac/Linux might do things from a users perspective compared to Windows, which may do something completely different, such as where resources for the game are stored etc. Another potential issue that people rarely think of us is performance. I had ported code over what was fairly straightforward to the Mac (OpenGL) and I immediately ran into a performance hit that was noticeable. I ended up having to optimize the code just to compete with the Windows version. The developer that does porting also has to become very familiar with completely new source code quickly and often in order to port as many products as possible (think about how long does it take a new developer working in your company to become familiar enough with the code before you let him muck with it?). An intimate understanding of technologies on ALL platforms is usually required for this sort of work. Another thing I have run into is that many Macs out there are laptops and a game that uses the mouse heavily may have to have some redesign work to work with the Mac laptop pad. These issues are not always the case and each one is unique from game to game of course, but are always potential issues. Not of this is insurmountable, but you always have to be prepared!
Whether the cops overreacted because they were nervous, stupid or acted appropriately is something that I am sure people will debate on and on about. I do think the guy started a situation and escalated it (as the cops may have done as well). I dont see him as a blameless victim. Why would he do such a thing over a Library ID card? The spouting about the patriot act and so forth may be a clue. If you walk around believing that we live in some sort of police state (and you may be right, Im not arguing that) you have to understand you now have a chip on your shoulder and have introduced the possibility that you are going to escalate any stupid issue of not having your library card (or anything involving a confrontation) into a point against living in a police state. That may be the goal whether its conscious or not.
He became president of dialpad.com from working at the venture capital company that funded dialpad, when dialpad was bought by yahoo.com they inherited this master of the obvious.
Notice he has virtually ZERO technology education, he is a diametrically opposite of Google.com management, yahoo's competitor (actually yahoo is google's bitch). Yet they continue to promote and stack the management with these same types. Shareholders should revolt.
From the original posting... "it is clear that users prefer DRM-free music, and are willing to pay for it and take the trouble to rip it.". Perhaps this is true, but I am not convinced. People not using iTunes or other download services may have more to do with the PRICE+DRM being almost on parity to the price of a CD without DRM, which also comes with physical media and packaging, remember DVD's have copy protection as well and I suspect you will see the same disproportionate sales of physical media vs online. A little less greed on the price of online downloads (especially movies) may go a long way to selling the public to the idea of DRM, especially the DRM and what it allows provided by Apple.
We had a problem with stealing food at work, someone was stealing this guys apple, orange, etc. Whatever fruit he had brought for lunch and left in the fridge went missing. So after a few emails asking that the thief stop went unheeded, we simply sent an email informing the last fruit stolen had spent the night before in mens urinal. That stopped the stealing cold.
I know the intent of this program is to help these children to have better opportunities, but what other infrastructure is being set up in these countries for this program besides just the act of buying the laptops?
When 1984 was released something very close to or having the potential to be very close to what is described in the novel had just been defeated, namely Nazi Germany. Its nice to think of our very plump little lives being the target of some mass conspiracy, but the reality is most of us are not worth the fuel for the imaginary black helicopters that are following us. For some, I suspect this is even more terrifying than Big Brother.
By a really huge extension. Being irresponsible with your job and getting someone accidentally killed is certainly negligent but is pretty far from shooting, stabbing or bludgeoning an individual in a heated argument or in a time of stress. The idea that the perpetrator of a murder that was not pre-planned would rarely commit such an act a second time is ludicrous. People with emotional control problems can often end up in road rage situations, simple assaults, etc. even murders. Any reasonable person would not want to hang out with someone who had commited a murder in the past, despite your assertion that these folks rarely commit this act a second time and are no danger! Would you let one babysit your kid?
With a few sentences you have summed up a very serious problem with the USA. It makes you wish for another Soviet Union and and the days of the space race to get our ass in gear (perhaps China can soon fill this role of a worthy competitor?). Of course you will have lots of arguments for the current model of a giant brain suck, mostly the very people who could not achieve a Science degree because it was too hard and end up taking business. Outsourcing is simply incest.
I am confused as to why the author of this article is using the word latent to describe the fans that may be interested in this particular story. Why would fans of Tron be hiding?
-Adam
Osama says your check is in the mail and thank you. Also Saddam needs you to return his tennis racket. Not sure why you think it's subtle, George Lucas said that III was a reference to George Bush and stuff a few weeks ago(also War Of The Worlds is supposed to reference 9/11 fears). Arent these filmakers so smart to educate us by being subtle, what would we do without these billionaires, who I am sure never exploited anyone on there climb to the top and would surely loan us a buck if they ran into us in the street.
Well, you get what you pay for. I was impressed with the effort. For a fan film its pretty amazing. After the first film came out in 1977, I think it was downhill from there, starting with the Holiday Special. George Luca's "vision" would not certainly be the subject I would have chosen to make a movie about. I felt pretty uncomfortable with the level of nerd-dom/fanboy or whatever you want to call it. I kept saying to myself, all this effort is going into something based on someone ELSE'S movie. I have to say I was impressed with the amount of effort that these guys must have put into this movie, and even if the subject matter is fanboy at its height, I take my hat off to them for such an impressive result. You guys slamming it probably have never produced anything outside of your job worth a damn and should STFU.
I see all this arguing going back and forth about whether what Wal-Mart is doing is legal or not. As if the legality of this issue means anything to you as an individual. People have taken action in the past regardless of whether what they were protesting was currently legal (remember segregation?). If you do not like what Wal-Mart is doing, stop shopping there. Use the golden rule.Stop giving them YOUR money to enable Wal-Mart to do things that you do not like. And stop finding excuses to go there and buy more crap than you really do not need in the name of convenience for you. Take a week away from Wal-Mart and encourage others to do the same, thats your strongest power as an individual.
The company that owns Slashdot is one big time outsourcing company. Its pretty obvious that the people who run Slashdot are beholden to there parent company that wants to ship the U.S. IT industry to china and India. Thanks alot you selfish fucks.
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Being intimately familiar with the Mac game market , 1000 copies sold for the Mac for original titles (see the top 10 on macgamefiles.com) is considered a hit. AAA titles might be another story, but dont assume because tens of thousands of copies are sold in one market that a smaller market should do ok. I made this mistake myself so it is understandable for you to make the assumption. Original mac programs like delicious monsters Delicious Library are where you usually find success stories on the Mac market. This does not mean that games should not be released for the Mac, thats what we do!!! But we usually shoulder the cost of the port for a royalty down the road. This basically means we have to port as many titles as possible, hopefully from the same developer (they tend to reuse code). In other words, you have to be fast on your feet as well as skilled on both platforms to do this sort of work and you need to love the Mac! I have not witnessed anyone getting rich (I made a lot more money working as a senior engineer for IBM). Adam Hall/PolyEx Software http://www.polyex.com/
As a developer who ports products to Macintosh - http://www.polyex.com/ I can tell you that porting a commercial product can sometimes be more difficult than what appears on the surface. Even if you take out obvious problems like the game is using Microsoft specific technologies like Direct X, etc. Some developers use huge in house libraries that will also need to be ported (or at least some of the functionality replicated) as well as 3rd party libs that may not even have the source available. With the Mac especially, endian issues crop up and have the potential to complicate things as they tend to only show up at runtime which requires a full QA cycle that goes perhaps deeper than originally thought. You even have to be aware of incompatibilities between VC++ and gcc, where VC++ some times lets people get away with murder. Ideally ,you also want the game to take advantage of unique ways the Mac/Linux might do things from a users perspective compared to Windows, which may do something completely different, such as where resources for the game are stored etc. Another potential issue that people rarely think of us is performance. I had ported code over what was fairly straightforward to the Mac (OpenGL) and I immediately ran into a performance hit that was noticeable. I ended up having to optimize the code just to compete with the Windows version. The developer that does porting also has to become very familiar with completely new source code quickly and often in order to port as many products as possible (think about how long does it take a new developer working in your company to become familiar enough with the code before you let him muck with it?). An intimate understanding of technologies on ALL platforms is usually required for this sort of work. Another thing I have run into is that many Macs out there are laptops and a game that uses the mouse heavily may have to have some redesign work to work with the Mac laptop pad. These issues are not always the case and each one is unique from game to game of course, but are always potential issues. Not of this is insurmountable, but you always have to be prepared!
A one word point on whether having managers with a technical background in a technology company is superior - Google
Whether the cops overreacted because they were nervous, stupid or acted appropriately is something that I am sure people will debate on and on about. I do think the guy started a situation and escalated it (as the cops may have done as well). I dont see him as a blameless victim. Why would he do such a thing over a Library ID card? The spouting about the patriot act and so forth may be a clue. If you walk around believing that we live in some sort of police state (and you may be right, Im not arguing that) you have to understand you now have a chip on your shoulder and have introduced the possibility that you are going to escalate any stupid issue of not having your library card (or anything involving a confrontation) into a point against living in a police state. That may be the goal whether its conscious or not.
This guy is a typical MBA cut throat loudmouth who thinks he should run yahoo.com:
g arlinghouse.html
http://www.ptc.org/events/ptc06/program/speakers/
He became president of dialpad.com from working at the venture capital company that funded dialpad, when dialpad was bought by yahoo.com they inherited this master of the obvious.
Notice he has virtually ZERO technology education, he is a diametrically opposite of Google.com management, yahoo's competitor (actually yahoo is google's bitch). Yet they continue to promote and stack the management with these same types. Shareholders should revolt.
From the original posting... "it is clear that users prefer DRM-free music, and are willing to pay for it and take the trouble to rip it.". Perhaps this is true, but I am not convinced. People not using iTunes or other download services may have more to do with the PRICE+DRM being almost on parity to the price of a CD without DRM, which also comes with physical media and packaging, remember DVD's have copy protection as well and I suspect you will see the same disproportionate sales of physical media vs online. A little less greed on the price of online downloads (especially movies) may go a long way to selling the public to the idea of DRM, especially the DRM and what it allows provided by Apple.
If this is the subject of debate.
I heard of a guy masturbating to the rape scene in Hills Have Eyes, I am assuming this ban would include Hollywood movies that portray such things?
We had a problem with stealing food at work, someone was stealing this guys apple, orange, etc. Whatever fruit he had brought for lunch and left in the fridge went missing. So after a few emails asking that the thief stop went unheeded, we simply sent an email informing the last fruit stolen had spent the night before in mens urinal. That stopped the stealing cold.
I know the intent of this program is to help these children to have better opportunities, but what other infrastructure is being set up in these countries for this program besides just the act of buying the laptops?
When 1984 was released something very close to or having the potential to be very close to what is described in the novel had just been defeated, namely Nazi Germany. Its nice to think of our very plump little lives being the target of some mass conspiracy, but the reality is most of us are not worth the fuel for the imaginary black helicopters that are following us. For some, I suspect this is even more terrifying than Big Brother.
Blame the Point of Sale systems too. This is where a real problem lies with Self-Checkout and the POS screen scraping it must do in most cases.
Doki Doki Panic? This is supposed to be "STUFF THAT MATTERS"?
So they are then?
Are most of the children being searched minorities?
Both are computers. Neither are exclusively mp3 players (but both systems do this).
The menu in iPod is identical to the list view in NeXTStep by NeXT , now part of Apple, and predating anything Creative did with its player menus.
The menu in iPod is identical to the list view in NeXTStep , predating anything Creative did.
By a really huge extension. Being irresponsible with your job and getting someone accidentally killed is certainly negligent but is pretty far from shooting, stabbing or bludgeoning an individual in a heated argument or in a time of stress. The idea that the perpetrator of a murder that was not pre-planned would rarely commit such an act a second time is ludicrous. People with emotional control problems can often end up in road rage situations, simple assaults, etc. even murders. Any reasonable person would not want to hang out with someone who had commited a murder in the past, despite your assertion that these folks rarely commit this act a second time and are no danger! Would you let one babysit your kid?
With a few sentences you have summed up a very serious problem with the USA. It makes you wish for another Soviet Union and and the days of the space race to get our ass in gear (perhaps China can soon fill this role of a worthy competitor?). Of course you will have lots of arguments for the current model of a giant brain suck, mostly the very people who could not achieve a Science degree because it was too hard and end up taking business. Outsourcing is simply incest.
I am confused as to why the author of this article is using the word latent to describe the fans that may be interested in this particular story. Why would fans of Tron be hiding? -Adam
Osama says your check is in the mail and thank you. Also Saddam needs you to return his tennis racket. Not sure why you think it's subtle, George Lucas said that III was a reference to George Bush and stuff a few weeks ago(also War Of The Worlds is supposed to reference 9/11 fears). Arent these filmakers so smart to educate us by being subtle, what would we do without these billionaires, who I am sure never exploited anyone on there climb to the top and would surely loan us a buck if they ran into us in the street.
Well, you get what you pay for. I was impressed with the effort. For a fan film its pretty amazing. After the first film came out in 1977, I think it was downhill from there, starting with the Holiday Special. George Luca's "vision" would not certainly be the subject I would have chosen to make a movie about. I felt pretty uncomfortable with the level of nerd-dom/fanboy or whatever you want to call it. I kept saying to myself, all this effort is going into something based on someone ELSE'S movie. I have to say I was impressed with the amount of effort that these guys must have put into this movie, and even if the subject matter is fanboy at its height, I take my hat off to them for such an impressive result. You guys slamming it probably have never produced anything outside of your job worth a damn and should STFU.
I see all this arguing going back and forth about whether what Wal-Mart is doing is legal or not. As if the legality of this issue means anything to you as an individual. People have taken action in the past regardless of whether what they were protesting was currently legal (remember segregation?). If you do not like what Wal-Mart is doing, stop shopping there. Use the golden rule.Stop giving them YOUR money to enable Wal-Mart to do things that you do not like. And stop finding excuses to go there and buy more crap than you really do not need in the name of convenience for you. Take a week away from Wal-Mart and encourage others to do the same, thats your strongest power as an individual.
The company that owns Slashdot is one big time outsourcing company. Its pretty obvious that the people who run Slashdot are beholden to there parent company that wants to ship the U.S. IT industry to china and India. Thanks alot you selfish fucks.