I agree that both games had their roots in artillery type games, but when I am saying that Angry Birds is a rip-off of Crush the Castle, I mean just that, it is the *exact* same game, with different graphics.
And yes the main point of my original comment was that the creator of Angry Birds has no room to criticize other developer's innovation, when his company has yet to have demonstrated any themselves.
He talks about how "innovation wasn't coming from large development firms like EA and Ubisoft, but from smaller, more nimble developers like his own.".... yet, angry birds is an obvious rip off of another game, Crush the Castle, which was developed by Armor Games quite some time before A.B.
Try it out for yourself...
http://armorgames.com/play/3614/crush-the-castle
Actually I agree, but I prefer to call most of these things a virus.
While I am aware that it is not always technically accurate, it has a greater emotional impact on non-technical people.
The fact is, Joe average user is much more likely to take it serious when you say.. your computer has about 10 viruses on it.
If you tell them your computer is infected with malware, they are likely to just say "What's that?".
It's not just AV software. The entire software industry operates this way.
1. Shovel feature-rich bug-ware onto unsuspecting schlubs to build "brand" (especially in the enterprise/IT market where the person purchasing the software is often not the person who has to use it, so they make decisions based on feature list and brand name rather than quality)
2. Wait for hobbyists, researchers, or smaller companies to figure out how to do it right
3. Buy their companies
4. Repeat
Remember when Norton was actually decent? It was before Symantec bought them. After the acquisition, Symantec went back to Step 1 and gradually bloated and encrapified the antivirus. Now they are on Step 2. I wouldn't be surprised if they bought up someone like TrendMicro soon, spouting promises of a glorious and euphoria-inducing Norton/PC-cillin integration.
-- 77IM
They already have, they bought up Sygate and shut it down, since it was competing with their firewall product. Now they are supposedly impementing some of sygate's technologies, but honestly I just no longer trust Nortons products.
Sygate Personal Firewall
Also I feel it should be said that these calls cause a huge disruption in small businesses that have to deal with customer service.
Since pretty much all businesses have land lines they get bombarded with robocalls all the time. And a lot of them cannot afford to have someone sit and watch a phone all day. So the people who are waiting on customers have to deal with the phone calls.
If I am on the phone I am not helping a customer.
Actually, the 5th ammendment does NOT say that you do not have to testify against yourself if it may bring incriminating evidince.
The 5th ammendment says that you do not EVER have to testify against yourself... whether it may be incriminating or not.
They could only find 18 singer-songwriters in Nashville that were desperate enough to talk / suck up to big-record-industry people that they'd go to DC? Sounds like a pretty weak group of people to me.
Yep that is pretty funny considering almost everyone here is either a musician, or part of the music industry in some way or another. I especially find it difficult to believe that only 18 of the so called "singer/songwriters" would speak up. Since most people I have experienced in this area are NOT artists in anyway. They usually are people just looking for the quick buck, with their eye on that residual income. Actual music is the secondary objective at best.
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I'm with 0racle here, How do they know that the start button usage has declined so much?
I agree that both games had their roots in artillery type games, but when I am saying that Angry Birds is a rip-off of Crush the Castle, I mean just that, it is the *exact* same game, with different graphics. And yes the main point of my original comment was that the creator of Angry Birds has no room to criticize other developer's innovation, when his company has yet to have demonstrated any themselves.
He talks about how "innovation wasn't coming from large development firms like EA and Ubisoft, but from smaller, more nimble developers like his own.".... yet, angry birds is an obvious rip off of another game, Crush the Castle, which was developed by Armor Games quite some time before A.B. Try it out for yourself... http://armorgames.com/play/3614/crush-the-castle
So, you are saying a whole multitude of devices combined can outsell a singe device. So what?
Oh, and he better not use Windows, or Unix, or Linux, since they also have built in encryption.
Actually I agree, but I prefer to call most of these things a virus.
While I am aware that it is not always technically accurate, it has a greater emotional impact on non-technical people.
The fact is, Joe average user is much more likely to take it serious when you say.. your computer has about 10 viruses on it.
If you tell them your computer is infected with malware, they are likely to just say "What's that?".
It's not just AV software. The entire software industry operates this way.
1. Shovel feature-rich bug-ware onto unsuspecting schlubs to build "brand" (especially in the enterprise/IT market where the person purchasing the software is often not the person who has to use it, so they make decisions based on feature list and brand name rather than quality) 2. Wait for hobbyists, researchers, or smaller companies to figure out how to do it right 3. Buy their companies 4. Repeat
Remember when Norton was actually decent? It was before Symantec bought them. After the acquisition, Symantec went back to Step 1 and gradually bloated and encrapified the antivirus. Now they are on Step 2. I wouldn't be surprised if they bought up someone like TrendMicro soon, spouting promises of a glorious and euphoria-inducing Norton/PC-cillin integration.
-- 77IM
They already have, they bought up Sygate and shut it down, since it was competing with their firewall product. Now they are supposedly impementing some of sygate's technologies, but honestly I just no longer trust Nortons products. Sygate Personal Firewall
Also I feel it should be said that these calls cause a huge disruption in small businesses that have to deal with customer service. Since pretty much all businesses have land lines they get bombarded with robocalls all the time. And a lot of them cannot afford to have someone sit and watch a phone all day. So the people who are waiting on customers have to deal with the phone calls. If I am on the phone I am not helping a customer.
Firefox had this years ago, seriously is this accurate, Opera just got these?
Funny, considering most other browser alway feel like an old version of opera to me. Especially Firefox.
Honestly the only thing Firefox has going for it over opera is the plugins. Which I dont entirely trust.
Actually, the 5th ammendment does NOT say that you do not have to testify against yourself if it may bring incriminating evidince. The 5th ammendment says that you do not EVER have to testify against yourself... whether it may be incriminating or not.
Agreed, it seems to me that the article was written by the same type of person who likes to go into forums and complain about everyone's grammer.
Is this anything like Bistro Mathmatics?