If they did (I believe they did, was before my time as well), it was long after it ended. I don't think they would've said anything about doing it while it was happening.
Manning up to this would be a bad idea. It's one thing that we all know it's happening, it's another thing for a country to openly admit they're attacking another. Sort of like how we all assume the CIA has its hands in some international doings, but the US government would never openly admit it while its happening.
Golf is probably the only sport that really tests adaptability. The courses all greatly vary, and even the individual courses themselves change quite often.
ESPN also shows spelling bees. Simply being on ESPN doesn't immediately validate anything as a sport, just like being on MTV doesn't immediately validate anything as music, nor being on the old Sci-Fi Channel didn't automatically make anything science fiction.
I don't know. I think baseball in Chicago is some king of large-scale practical joke I'm not in on. Fans fervently arguing with one another about which team is better, while they both struggle to be.500 teams. Some kind of intense battle over mediocrity...
You need go back before Firefox (or Firebird, or Phoenix) existed, before the term "Web Applications" was coined, and AJAX was still a Microsoft proprietary technology in IE 4.0 called MSXML. Back then you couldn't touch the file input contents until it was posted back to the server since it was considered a security risk.
As for what I was referring to, it wasn't using an offline cache for its web application. The media player had a file input form element (what you called a 'file upload control') that read the file contents off your drive when you selected one from the file dialog. No posting back to the server or submitting the form was required, just simply picking a file.
a load of giving away user control and sovereignty over your own system, packaged as "Wow, cool new feature".
When Slashdot ran the article about the JavaScript + HTML5 music player, that was my first impression. I remember back when scripts reading local files was regarded as a security hole in the browser, not a "cool new feature."
Every year they do a study on the cost of video game development. And year after year, the biggest expense is always the marketing budget. I think you could cut down on game development costs if you stopped wasting money on that. Stop doing things like creating life-size replica statues of your protagonist, sending over-the-top marketing packages to gaming publications (complete with real items from the game), creating a miniseries in the context of the game, and so on. The average consumer never even sees these things, and the gamer who eats this stuff up typically is already following the game.
Want cheaper games? Cut the marketing department's budget.
I'm sure my phone company, with their overly restrictive and discouraging views of tethering devices, would *love* that. Not to mention that a phone's connection isn't exactly what I'd call reliable.
Hiccup in the network? BOOM, progress lost, and you've been kicked out of the game, you dirty, dirty pirate!
Just an additional note on this - the SecuROM version was more than just the disk check. This became evident due to a patch being required because Fallout 3 refused to run when it detected ProcessExplorer on the system. And it did install the usual OS hooks after installing FO3, which I did manually end up removing.
But, it was nice that the workaround to get around SecuROM on the system was just to link directly to Fallout3.exe instead.
Well, we can hold out some hope since Fallout: NV (not developed, just published by them) dropped GFWL/SecuROM in favor of Steam. While I'm not a particular fan of Steamworks either, it's (by far) the lesser of the evils.
In all of Bethesda's previous games, the answer to that would be an unambiguous 'yes'.
Fallout 3 came with SecuROM (not the disk check version they claimed it was, even after they got busted for lying about it) and GFWL. So, based on history, 'no.' Their most recent offering was heavily hooked into Steam, so Steamworks seems like it'd be a good bet Skyrim's DRM will be.
You could just create various pieces of armor and items and and get 100% chameleon affect in Oblivion without any mods. The only way to die is to kill yourself since enemies will never attack.
It's like the Pope turned round one day and said "okay, we're going to rewrite our doctrines to make them more appealing to atheists!"
Funny you use that as an example. This actually happened quite a bit throughout history, but they changed things to appeal to pagans instead of atheists.
The only rumblings (which were covered here) are about MS dropping Silverlight and going with HTML5/JavaScript for web. Somehow, the article took that and misconstrued it as MS abandoning.NET.
What recent unsettling behavior at MS concerning.NET? All I've heard about is Microsoft ditching Silverlight for HTML5, nothing about.NET being dropped as a whole. Even when the article tries to allude to it, they still only talk about Silverlight.
One other thing....
.NET has always been a second class Windows citizen unable to make direct use of the Windows APIs
There's no co-op, so the charm that Borderlands had running around in the wastes with a friend is pretty much not here. Personally, I think any time you cite the story as the primary reason you left out co-op, you need to reevaluate what players really want. Even more so when they're drawing parallels to between your game and one of the best co-op games in recent years. If I'm looking for co-op, I'm willing to accept the suspension of disbelief about my loner badass wandering around in the wastes with a second person of equal loner badassery.
If it was legitimately licensed as GPL, the commercial company cannot remove the GPL license, and have to keep the GPL intact on any derivative works. They also cannot close the source, and must distribute source in accordance with the license.
However, if the company owned the source from the beginning, the coder was never permitted to license the code however he sees fit. The GPL license isn't valid, and the code cannot be forked and distributed as GPL. They'd probably pursue a trade secret violation since the coder, for all intents and purposes, is doing the equivalent of stealing proprietary code, GPLing it, and redistributing it.
Since the grey area of this all is 'who owns the code,' I'm guessing a lawyer is going to end up deciding the validity of the license. TFA alludes to both the code being written for work and being written at home in off time (which blurs the grey area even more).
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Which class taught you how to balance a checkbook, because I don't recall ever taking it.
We covered it in middle school during our 8th grade social studies classes (mock checking accounts, etc). I wasn't an exception because I recall my siblings also doing something similar (we attended different schools).
Then during high school, we covered family budgets in Sex Ed/Family Sciences/whatever it called these days. We had to create and manage a mock budgets for a family based on a random job, education, family size, and income level assigned to you.
There hasn't really been a cycle yet. I just didn't include any TV series. There's always consistently been comic book TV shows and movies, and I can't really say there's been a downturn that would constitute a cycle. They've just perpetually been there.
To be honest, comic book movies have been getting churned out year after year for the past 30 or so years, possibly longer. It's not just some fad that was picked up in the late 90s/early 2000s, nor do I think it's some bubble effect.
Superman was a household movie name back in the 80s, the early 90s was dominated by Batman remakes. Not to mention the plethora of comic-based movies that aren't your typical "super hero comics" (think along the lines of Sin City, From Hell, or Weird Science).
I didn't say anything about completely escaping Earth's gravity. I mentioned a parking orbit,
Those two things are directly related. A parking orbit is the point where you would be starting to escape Earth's gravity. If you're any lower, you're going to be crashing back to Earth without additional maintenance boosting to keep it in orbit.
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If they did (I believe they did, was before my time as well), it was long after it ended. I don't think they would've said anything about doing it while it was happening.
Manning up to this would be a bad idea. It's one thing that we all know it's happening, it's another thing for a country to openly admit they're attacking another. Sort of like how we all assume the CIA has its hands in some international doings, but the US government would never openly admit it while its happening.
It's all just a dog and pony show to me until the Blackhawks hit the ice again anyway.
Golf is probably the only sport that really tests adaptability. The courses all greatly vary, and even the individual courses themselves change quite often.
ESPN also shows spelling bees. Simply being on ESPN doesn't immediately validate anything as a sport, just like being on MTV doesn't immediately validate anything as music, nor being on the old Sci-Fi Channel didn't automatically make anything science fiction.
I don't know. I think baseball in Chicago is some king of large-scale practical joke I'm not in on. Fans fervently arguing with one another about which team is better, while they both struggle to be .500 teams. Some kind of intense battle over mediocrity...
You need go back before Firefox (or Firebird, or Phoenix) existed, before the term "Web Applications" was coined, and AJAX was still a Microsoft proprietary technology in IE 4.0 called MSXML. Back then you couldn't touch the file input contents until it was posted back to the server since it was considered a security risk.
As for what I was referring to, it wasn't using an offline cache for its web application. The media player had a file input form element (what you called a 'file upload control') that read the file contents off your drive when you selected one from the file dialog. No posting back to the server or submitting the form was required, just simply picking a file.
a load of giving away user control and sovereignty over your own system, packaged as "Wow, cool new feature".
When Slashdot ran the article about the JavaScript + HTML5 music player, that was my first impression. I remember back when scripts reading local files was regarded as a security hole in the browser, not a "cool new feature."
Development costs are not the only expense
Every year they do a study on the cost of video game development. And year after year, the biggest expense is always the marketing budget. I think you could cut down on game development costs if you stopped wasting money on that. Stop doing things like creating life-size replica statues of your protagonist, sending over-the-top marketing packages to gaming publications (complete with real items from the game), creating a miniseries in the context of the game, and so on. The average consumer never even sees these things, and the gamer who eats this stuff up typically is already following the game.
Want cheaper games? Cut the marketing department's budget.
Not to mention that the average person likely has no idea what a card skimmer looks like when compared to the card reader on an ATM.
tethering to get a reliable connection
I'm sure my phone company, with their overly restrictive and discouraging views of tethering devices, would *love* that. Not to mention that a phone's connection isn't exactly what I'd call reliable.
Hiccup in the network? BOOM, progress lost, and you've been kicked out of the game, you dirty, dirty pirate!
No more SecuROM disk check.
Just an additional note on this - the SecuROM version was more than just the disk check. This became evident due to a patch being required because Fallout 3 refused to run when it detected ProcessExplorer on the system. And it did install the usual OS hooks after installing FO3, which I did manually end up removing.
But, it was nice that the workaround to get around SecuROM on the system was just to link directly to Fallout3.exe instead.
Well, we can hold out some hope since Fallout: NV (not developed, just published by them) dropped GFWL/SecuROM in favor of Steam. While I'm not a particular fan of Steamworks either, it's (by far) the lesser of the evils.
In all of Bethesda's previous games, the answer to that would be an unambiguous 'yes'.
Fallout 3 came with SecuROM (not the disk check version they claimed it was, even after they got busted for lying about it) and GFWL. So, based on history, 'no.' Their most recent offering was heavily hooked into Steam, so Steamworks seems like it'd be a good bet Skyrim's DRM will be.
You could just create various pieces of armor and items and and get 100% chameleon affect in Oblivion without any mods. The only way to die is to kill yourself since enemies will never attack.
No. The only people who've been saying that are spreading FUD.
It's like the Pope turned round one day and said "okay, we're going to rewrite our doctrines to make them more appealing to atheists!"
Funny you use that as an example. This actually happened quite a bit throughout history, but they changed things to appeal to pagans instead of atheists.
The only rumblings (which were covered here) are about MS dropping Silverlight and going with HTML5/JavaScript for web. Somehow, the article took that and misconstrued it as MS abandoning .NET.
One other thing....
.NET has always been a second class Windows citizen unable to make direct use of the Windows APIs
Really?
Multiplayer details over at 1UP.
There's no co-op, so the charm that Borderlands had running around in the wastes with a friend is pretty much not here. Personally, I think any time you cite the story as the primary reason you left out co-op, you need to reevaluate what players really want. Even more so when they're drawing parallels to between your game and one of the best co-op games in recent years. If I'm looking for co-op, I'm willing to accept the suspension of disbelief about my loner badass wandering around in the wastes with a second person of equal loner badassery.
The problem is those are mutually exclusive.
If it was legitimately licensed as GPL, the commercial company cannot remove the GPL license, and have to keep the GPL intact on any derivative works. They also cannot close the source, and must distribute source in accordance with the license.
However, if the company owned the source from the beginning, the coder was never permitted to license the code however he sees fit. The GPL license isn't valid, and the code cannot be forked and distributed as GPL. They'd probably pursue a trade secret violation since the coder, for all intents and purposes, is doing the equivalent of stealing proprietary code, GPLing it, and redistributing it.
Since the grey area of this all is 'who owns the code,' I'm guessing a lawyer is going to end up deciding the validity of the license. TFA alludes to both the code being written for work and being written at home in off time (which blurs the grey area even more).
Which class taught you how to balance a checkbook, because I don't recall ever taking it.
We covered it in middle school during our 8th grade social studies classes (mock checking accounts, etc). I wasn't an exception because I recall my siblings also doing something similar (we attended different schools).
Then during high school, we covered family budgets in Sex Ed/Family Sciences/whatever it called these days. We had to create and manage a mock budgets for a family based on a random job, education, family size, and income level assigned to you.
There hasn't really been a cycle yet. I just didn't include any TV series. There's always consistently been comic book TV shows and movies, and I can't really say there's been a downturn that would constitute a cycle. They've just perpetually been there.
To be honest, comic book movies have been getting churned out year after year for the past 30 or so years, possibly longer. It's not just some fad that was picked up in the late 90s/early 2000s, nor do I think it's some bubble effect.
Superman was a household movie name back in the 80s, the early 90s was dominated by Batman remakes. Not to mention the plethora of comic-based movies that aren't your typical "super hero comics" (think along the lines of Sin City, From Hell, or Weird Science).
I didn't say anything about completely escaping Earth's gravity. I mentioned a parking orbit,
Those two things are directly related. A parking orbit is the point where you would be starting to escape Earth's gravity. If you're any lower, you're going to be crashing back to Earth without additional maintenance boosting to keep it in orbit.