I would have thought that Crest would have realised that SimCity is pretty much become a toxic brand at the moment and will taint everything associated with it.
As far as I understand it, this is in-game advertising. If you're undiscerning enough to put up with EA's shit and are still avidly playing this mediocre excuse for a game, I'd say you're gullible enough to be an advertisers dream. Home-run for Crest.
I got almost my entire introduction to programming in a C-like language through being a Wizard on an LP-Mud back in my student days in London. And that had no graphical UI at all - just text only. Until that point I had no prior programming experience, but it taught me the fundamentals that have now served me for over 20 years as a developer.
I admit I'm not that familiar with this project, but is it really as massive as the pictures suggest? Surely they could have produced something less bulky given the state of play with displays etc. these days. I mean I'm not suggesting it would look like Google Glass, but perhaps a the size of a pair of ski goggles...
Or is this just the dev kit?
Your point is typical of the smart-ass remarks that get thrown around on site like this to score cheap points, that have no fucking relevance at all when they're actually considered.
The responsibility for knowing how your car works, or ensuring your electricity functions correctly has been taken out of your hands and is handled by the people who made the vehicle or the house. Just like providing people with a simple, secure computing platform that does enough to satisfy their needs is not a bad idea.
Although, let's be honest, a lot of patent trolls would be content to wait until the startup is acquired because they'd much rather go after the deep pocketed corporation that buys it.
That statement demonstrates the same sort of bone-headed mindset that's driven companies into the vendor lock-down the city of Freiburg was trying to escape from.
And your statements indicate the kind of tin-foil hat wearing, high horse riding hyperbole that is the primary reason why people outside the community don't take FOSS particularly seriously.
Damn right. When Jobs got up on stage and announced that Apple was a mobile device company (and upset a few Mac devotees to boot), at least he did so from the position of having sold a shitload of iPods and phones. They've sold more iOS devices now than all the personal computers sold in the entire company's history. Microsoft, apart from Xbox, which has sold a fraction of the number of iOS devices, has no such right to the claim.
Maybe the hacking and mass slaughter of innocent players in World of Warcraft major cities was actually a PETA terrorist plot in revenge for battle pets' inclusion in the recent Pandaria expansion.
They have given away the iPhone 3G, 3GS, 4, 4S, iPad 2, 3 and will give away the iPhone 5 in Japan when you sign up for 2 years. And the contracts aren't really any more pricey than the US and come with unlimited data.
There are for me. You sure you don't have an ad blocker running? I got one for Gillette shaving gel, and then went back when I read your message to make sure I wasn't imagining it, and got another one for Speck cases.
Why? That would suggest there's something almost altruistic about his decision, when it's pretty fucking obvious that he's doing this to make more money than his mediocre game would have otherwise. I suppose I grudgingly admire his PR savvy.
While these kinds of "gestures" by game developers remain a novelty, they will be treated as such, and garner more publicity (front page on reddit, slashdot and god knows how many other sites already) leading to considerably more sales than they would have achieved otherwise. The right-on crowd who still seem to think this is somehow a generous decision rather than a cunning marketing ploy will support it with their wallets and the developer gets more income for his distinctly "average" project than he could have hoped for if he'd tried to launch it at a fixed price.
That's the way of things these days. When you have nothing better to say, you whine and bitch about a substantial project, entirely created by volunteers, given away for free, and to which you have contributed nothing... as if they owe you something. I believe it's one of the requirements for the new Boy Scouts "entitlement" badge.
is that there is an outside chance that it may finally see the end of Ballmer. He's clearly never had the chops for the CEO position and his tenure has been disastrous. The only thing that saved him was that just as the Vista debacle was at its peak, Jobs lost sight of Mac OS X and turned all his company's attention to mobile devices, just when Apple had the best opportunity in their lifetime to make serious market share gains on the desktop.
Yeah, let's focus on internet radio in order to cherry pick an obscure example that satisfies your ridiculous need to bury your head in the sand and pretend that the U S of A is only "second bottom" when it comes to overzealous rights protection.
Despite this incident involving Japanese journalists, America is way worse. No one has been prosecuted or fined in Japan for downloading illegally. Compare that to the numerous court cases and multiple-thousand dollar "fees" sent out by the RIAA during their war on the consumer. Or any number of other mainstream examples that actually affect people. It's not even illegal (at the time of writing) to download copyright infringing content - only to upload it, although unfortunately that law will be revised in a few months.
I think a lot of PC gamers are pretty fed up with the "release a half finished game, and rapidly release half a dozen patches to actually complete it" model of development that seems to be the standard these days. If this fee stops that from being so prevalent on consoles, I'm all for it.
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I would have thought that Crest would have realised that SimCity is pretty much become a toxic brand at the moment and will taint everything associated with it.
As far as I understand it, this is in-game advertising. If you're undiscerning enough to put up with EA's shit and are still avidly playing this mediocre excuse for a game, I'd say you're gullible enough to be an advertisers dream. Home-run for Crest.
Sarcasm on forum posts is fucking pointless. Neither you nor the GP knows who is correct.
38 of the 40 girls in the test group complained that, once they were written in Java, the spells took forever to execute.
Probably ran slow because their machines had been compromised by 5 separate zero-day exploits before they'd finished the lesson.
I got almost my entire introduction to programming in a C-like language through being a Wizard on an LP-Mud back in my student days in London. And that had no graphical UI at all - just text only. Until that point I had no prior programming experience, but it taught me the fundamentals that have now served me for over 20 years as a developer.
I admit I'm not that familiar with this project, but is it really as massive as the pictures suggest? Surely they could have produced something less bulky given the state of play with displays etc. these days. I mean I'm not suggesting it would look like Google Glass, but perhaps a the size of a pair of ski goggles... Or is this just the dev kit?
Your point is typical of the smart-ass remarks that get thrown around on site like this to score cheap points, that have no fucking relevance at all when they're actually considered. The responsibility for knowing how your car works, or ensuring your electricity functions correctly has been taken out of your hands and is handled by the people who made the vehicle or the house. Just like providing people with a simple, secure computing platform that does enough to satisfy their needs is not a bad idea.
Although, let's be honest, a lot of patent trolls would be content to wait until the startup is acquired because they'd much rather go after the deep pocketed corporation that buys it.
That statement demonstrates the same sort of bone-headed mindset that's driven companies into the vendor lock-down the city of Freiburg was trying to escape from.
And your statements indicate the kind of tin-foil hat wearing, high horse riding hyperbole that is the primary reason why people outside the community don't take FOSS particularly seriously.
Sorry, but Apple already owns the patent on asking someone to kiss their ass.
Not only that, but it's probably their most frequently used "innovation".
it's just the author shouldn't have been expecting to make a lot of money with it.
Where did the author claim they were?
AWS's CloudFront is an edge delivery network.
Damn right. When Jobs got up on stage and announced that Apple was a mobile device company (and upset a few Mac devotees to boot), at least he did so from the position of having sold a shitload of iPods and phones. They've sold more iOS devices now than all the personal computers sold in the entire company's history. Microsoft, apart from Xbox, which has sold a fraction of the number of iOS devices, has no such right to the claim.
Maybe the hacking and mass slaughter of innocent players in World of Warcraft major cities was actually a PETA terrorist plot in revenge for battle pets' inclusion in the recent Pandaria expansion.
They have given away the iPhone 3G, 3GS, 4, 4S, iPad 2, 3 and will give away the iPhone 5 in Japan when you sign up for 2 years. And the contracts aren't really any more pricey than the US and come with unlimited data.
There isn't a single ad on the page.
There are for me. You sure you don't have an ad blocker running? I got one for Gillette shaving gel, and then went back when I read your message to make sure I wasn't imagining it, and got another one for Speck cases.
Replying to revert moderation - accidentally slipped with the mouse and modded you flamebait.
but you have to admire his class
Why? That would suggest there's something almost altruistic about his decision, when it's pretty fucking obvious that he's doing this to make more money than his mediocre game would have otherwise. I suppose I grudgingly admire his PR savvy.
While these kinds of "gestures" by game developers remain a novelty, they will be treated as such, and garner more publicity (front page on reddit, slashdot and god knows how many other sites already) leading to considerably more sales than they would have achieved otherwise. The right-on crowd who still seem to think this is somehow a generous decision rather than a cunning marketing ploy will support it with their wallets and the developer gets more income for his distinctly "average" project than he could have hoped for if he'd tried to launch it at a fixed price.
or Channel 4 -- to us Americans they're the same thing
Speak for yourself, ignoramus.
That's the way of things these days. When you have nothing better to say, you whine and bitch about a substantial project, entirely created by volunteers, given away for free, and to which you have contributed nothing... as if they owe you something. I believe it's one of the requirements for the new Boy Scouts "entitlement" badge.
It must be, according to TFA, a case of "incorrectly programmed copyright enforcement squad" that is the culprit
Because that was the reason. If you want to make a political statement, go ahead, but that doesn't change the factual basis for the error.
is that there is an outside chance that it may finally see the end of Ballmer. He's clearly never had the chops for the CEO position and his tenure has been disastrous. The only thing that saved him was that just as the Vista debacle was at its peak, Jobs lost sight of Mac OS X and turned all his company's attention to mobile devices, just when Apple had the best opportunity in their lifetime to make serious market share gains on the desktop.
Well, the fact that you can do it *obviously* means it's true for everyone then.
Yeah, let's focus on internet radio in order to cherry pick an obscure example that satisfies your ridiculous need to bury your head in the sand and pretend that the U S of A is only "second bottom" when it comes to overzealous rights protection.
Despite this incident involving Japanese journalists, America is way worse. No one has been prosecuted or fined in Japan for downloading illegally. Compare that to the numerous court cases and multiple-thousand dollar "fees" sent out by the RIAA during their war on the consumer. Or any number of other mainstream examples that actually affect people. It's not even illegal (at the time of writing) to download copyright infringing content - only to upload it, although unfortunately that law will be revised in a few months.
I think a lot of PC gamers are pretty fed up with the "release a half finished game, and rapidly release half a dozen patches to actually complete it" model of development that seems to be the standard these days. If this fee stops that from being so prevalent on consoles, I'm all for it.
You should go visit Japan and Korea. EVERYTHING technical is done in local languages.
Except actual programming, which they have absolutely no problem with. Which makes your point somewhat moot given the context of the discussion.
(I work in software development in Japan, for what it's worth.)