I call BS. Coders, just like execs: like new features and money. Patches don't generate either (unless you charge for patches, but even M$ isn't that evil).
The fact is: new software = money, patches = better PR and money trumps PR. Heck, the only reason anybody cares about PR is to make more money!
The backstory is core in World of WarCraft. Hell, it out dates the game by more than a decade. BUT, WoW is dominated by men and men playing women. Sure, I know a few actual, real females that play but they're in a pretty darn small minority.
Also, you still power leveling and loot envy going on. I think it's more the adolecent male behavior that keeps women away from games.
This totally changes the meaning of the Chinese/Japanese "saving face" concept.
I can understand replacing a face that's been eaten by a dog, but it's only a matter of time before the wealthy are buying people's faces. I can see it now:
"oh, honey. that young girl is so pretty. I must have her face, buy it for me won't you?"
No, not in China. These parents are probably working 16 hours days for some company that supplies cheap parts for you keyboard and simply cannot afford to be home watching their kid because they only make $8 / day.
I have to disagree with #4. There are a ton of good APIs out there that are easy for an outside programmer to come in and use. If you build your code with the concepts that
You will not be the one to maintain it
You're writting an API that will be tied together
You're not the world's greatest coder
Your source doesn't need to be locked into one developer. I hate to see it, but see M$DN's stuff for.NET to see ease of reference with an understandable API to see exactly what I mean (warning not FireFox friendly - sadly).
Why Gamespot? Shouldn't this article been written by, say, BestBuy who actually sells HDTVs too?
Anyhoo - I actually know a lot of people who don't see a reason to upgrade their TV. It works, right? And HD doesn't come around here anyways (least, not yet). They do see a reason to upgrade everything else constantly. Perhaps, this is a push my Redmond to get "news" (I use the term loosly here) agencies to get the word out the 360 does looks great, it's your TV that sucks.
PS.
There are a lot of people who don't know that TVs come in various qualities 'cause they always shop at WalMart, they're not stupid - they're just not geeks and are underinformed (read: ignorant). Remember, WalMart sells Xbox too.
Commented code is great on day one - but after even a few days of update / compile / test / tweak the comment become out of sync with the actual code. The best practice is easy to read code that use human readable variable/method/class/object names.
Also, I find that hungarian notiation, while sucking to write, is very easy to read.
Um... you don't need anything to do AJAX work. You can build it with.shtml. It's just a protocol that uses a built in browser object to submit and retrieve data without user interaction. Hence, the page doesn't have to refresh, or rebuild the DOM tree.
And as for Why is it tied to Javascript?? because it is all Javascript. There's no real VB alternative, and I for one am happy about that.
Basically, you instantiate the Javascript object, create a URL for it to call and make the call. In theory the server answering the URL call will return a well formed XML document that can be parsed. Then the returned data can be formatted by the Javascript engine on the client side.
It's beautiful because it moves load to the client side, and speeds up page performance (in general).
In short, there's no.NET equivelent but there are.NET tools that help make development easier. See System.XML for more information.
How about a completely failed banking system. Last report showed that not one Chinese bank was solvent by Western standards.
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This is in agreement with the parent post.
Why don't people get it? Titanic the motherload of movies made something like $500M. WoW has 4M as a user base all paying around $15/month. Unless my math skills are really in the shitter, that's $60M/month or $720M/year. Given the life span of a MMP that beats the crap out of Titanic, or any Hollywood production any day. MMPs can make litterally billions of dollars if they play their cards right. Blizzard has, we can do the math when they shut down the last Realm.
That's a lot of expensive floor space in Japan. M$ is sure spending the cash to try and impress the Japanese, who are renowned for their nationalistic brand awareness. So we (Americans) get stuck going to WalMart to check out 360s while the Japanese get a dedicated lounge, despite the fact that we're going to be the vast majority of their customer base?
Speaking of expanding the D&D franchise: Dungeons and Dragons Online went into beta yesterday. Didn't occur to me then, but could this be a coincidence? I doubt it.
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I mean, I'm sure they're way over priced but do they have to make their intentions so obvious?
The fact is: new software = money, patches = better PR and money trumps PR. Heck, the only reason anybody cares about PR is to make more money!
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?sect ion_name=pub&aid=1868
Also, you still power leveling and loot envy going on. I think it's more the adolecent male behavior that keeps women away from games.
Ever notice nobody dies in Scooby Doo?
This totally changes the meaning of the Chinese/Japanese "saving face" concept. I can understand replacing a face that's been eaten by a dog, but it's only a matter of time before the wealthy are buying people's faces. I can see it now: "oh, honey. that young girl is so pretty. I must have her face, buy it for me won't you?"
You sure we're talking about "rootkit" $ony here?
Oh wait, this isn't a M$ product. Nevermind.
No, not in China. These parents are probably working 16 hours days for some company that supplies cheap parts for you keyboard and simply cannot afford to be home watching their kid because they only make $8 / day.
Do billboards work? 'Nuff said.
FireFox supports PNG, and here's some IR behavior code for you CSS doc to make IE at least allow 32 bits (8x8x8x8) of data.
/>
/\.png$/i;
// Already fixed
e r(src='" + src + "')";
<public:component>
<public:attach event="onpropertychange" for="element" onEvent="propertyChanged()"
<script language="JavaScript">
var needHack = needHack();
var transparentImage = "/shared/graphics/spacer.gif";
function propertyChanged() {
if (event.propertyName == "src")
pngHack();
}
function pngHack() {
var src = "" + element.src;
var png =
if (needHack) {
if (src.indexOf(transparentImage) != -1)
return;
if (!png.test(src)) {
element.runtimeStyle.filter = "";
} else {
element.src = transparentImage;
element.runtimeStyle.filter = "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.AlphaImageLoad
}
}
}
function needHack() {
var pos = navigator.userAgent.indexOf("MSIE ");
if (pos == -1) return false;
var version = navigator.userAgent.substring(pos + 5);
return (((version.indexOf("5.5") == 0) || (version.indexOf("6") == 0)) && (navigator.platform == ("Win32")));
}
pngHack();
</script>
</public:component>
- You will not be the one to maintain it
- You're writting an API that will be tied together
- You're not the world's greatest coder
Your source doesn't need to be locked into one developer. I hate to see it, but see M$DN's stuff forI felt a tremor in the force just now...
Anyhoo - I actually know a lot of people who don't see a reason to upgrade their TV. It works, right? And HD doesn't come around here anyways (least, not yet). They do see a reason to upgrade everything else constantly. Perhaps, this is a push my Redmond to get "news" (I use the term loosly here) agencies to get the word out the 360 does looks great, it's your TV that sucks.
PS.
There are a lot of people who don't know that TVs come in various qualities 'cause they always shop at WalMart, they're not stupid - they're just not geeks and are underinformed (read: ignorant). Remember, WalMart sells Xbox too.
Also, I find that hungarian notiation, while sucking to write, is very easy to read.
Ooh, government standardization - that outta help out innovation. Just like M$ standardization does, right?
And as for Why is it tied to Javascript?? because it is all Javascript. There's no real VB alternative, and I for one am happy about that.
Basically, you instantiate the Javascript object, create a URL for it to call and make the call. In theory the server answering the URL call will return a well formed XML document that can be parsed. Then the returned data can be formatted by the Javascript engine on the client side.
It's beautiful because it moves load to the client side, and speeds up page performance (in general).
In short, there's no .NET equivelent but there are .NET tools that help make development easier. See System.XML for more information.
It's credit to buy things. They ship out goods and we owe them cash.
No, you see the Pope is attempting to set everyone else straight... especially his own priests.
How about a completely failed banking system. Last report showed that not one Chinese bank was solvent by Western standards.
Why don't people get it? Titanic the motherload of movies made something like $500M. WoW has 4M as a user base all paying around $15/month. Unless my math skills are really in the shitter, that's $60M/month or $720M/year. Given the life span of a MMP that beats the crap out of Titanic, or any Hollywood production any day. MMPs can make litterally billions of dollars if they play their cards right. Blizzard has, we can do the math when they shut down the last Realm.
You and Exxon/Mobil both.
Greeks of the world unite!