In the future Wall Posts and Communication will be to Facebook what Searches are to Google, just a means to do their real business. Pimping your virtual a$$ out for to whoever pays the most.
2004 - Half Life 2 came out and I was disappointed. That was one long corridor (albeit of different widths and with different textures) from beginning to end. At least from what i have seen of the first 15 mins, MW3 makes it a Hollywood block buster of a corridor. That is progress.
They could make 'em use Javascript? I am personally leaving IT all together if Javascript is the way of the future. Giving up the nice fully featured.Net libraries for something that was designed for manipulating HTML. Come on.
I have been developing iOS stuff by myself, for a year or two now. If I'm lucky I might just cover the cost of the Apple Dev Program subscription plus web service hosting.
I disagree.;) I play the really long games episodically. What that means is, I play Mass Effect (for example) until I get tired of it (not bored, normally about a month or so), go and play some other game for a few weeks and then go back to Mass Effect refreshed. ME had great story, great characters, but boy, was it tedious at times. It really was just shoot and scavenge in a number of varied locations. I think GTA IV took about 3 or 4 sessions to finish like this. Simpsons and Lego Star Wars probably about 5 sessions.
Now, the Simpsons game and GTA IV. I atually wanted to go back and get all the collectibles in the Simpsons game whereas the thought of finding and shooting all those pigeons left me cold.
On the vague off chance it is real, the last thing they would do is release a demo. The first thing everyone else would do is reverse engineer it and rip them off.
The ability to take a gadget and make it do something completely different is really overrated. I jailbroke my iPhone for a while, but there wasn't really any compelling reason for me (non l33t) to keep it broken.
While the app store isn't perfect, imagine how much cr@pware and viruses there would be in there if it wasn't checked. When I first got my mac I wanted a cheap/free graphics package to use on it. Do you know how much cruft you have to search through to find something decent? "Use package x" says some blog but doh, it hasn't been updated in two years, and neither has the app. Or it has but it won't run on current/old versions of OSX. App store makes it easier.
As for getting your OS from the store. Well, over the years you have probably replaced a lot of your current OS with system updates. This just takes it one stage further.
I have written a iOS game called MatchuM. Its a Mah Jong solitaire game without all the "oriental baggage" you get in those games. It is on the app store but hardly anyone knows its there. It doesn't matter how good your game is, once it has fallen off the "new releases" screen in iTunes then what do you do? How do you let people know its there? The "freeappaday" people want £2.5K to advertise it, but thats probably more then I have spent on hardware in the last 20 years, so thats a no go.
My only complaint about OSX is its toolbars. Every app has them but Apple thinks they demean the application, so they only stick about 5 command buttons on it. So despite having a mouse you have to remember obscure keyboard short cuts to get practically anything done. I know there are menus but they are just so 1980s. Using Xcode on a laptop is like using Wordstar 30 years ago.
The thing is, you can only make a thing so "lean and mean". After you have optimized it to within an inch of its life, then what are you going to spend all that Google ad revenue on?
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In the future Wall Posts and Communication will be to Facebook what Searches are to Google, just a means to do their real business. Pimping your virtual a$$ out for to whoever pays the most.
What about the Wu Tang Clan inspired Wubuntu, the latest version of Creaky Cow (ie, Mooobunto) and the frankly crap Pubuntu?
That is the nearest we inthe UK have to Glenn Beck.
Move along, nothing to see here.
doesn't mean that it should be done. I'm just saying.
2004 - Half Life 2 came out and I was disappointed. That was one long corridor (albeit of different widths and with different textures) from beginning to end. At least from what i have seen of the first 15 mins, MW3 makes it a Hollywood block buster of a corridor. That is progress.
Cos what the world needs is another type of license.
No idea what that means really.
Was Intel just late to the TV chip party and other chipmakers had it sewn up?
I blame Doritos.
They could make 'em use Javascript? I am personally leaving IT all together if Javascript is the way of the future. Giving up the nice fully featured .Net libraries for something that was designed for manipulating HTML. Come on.
Just wondered?
Ps. I know that's CryENGINE and not UE3.
I have been developing iOS stuff by myself, for a year or two now. If I'm lucky I might just cover the cost of the Apple Dev Program subscription plus web service hosting.
I disagree. ;) I play the really long games episodically. What that means is, I play Mass Effect (for example) until I get tired of it (not bored, normally about a month or so), go and play some other game for a few weeks and then go back to Mass Effect refreshed. ME had great story, great characters, but boy, was it tedious at times. It really was just shoot and scavenge in a number of varied locations. I think GTA IV took about 3 or 4 sessions to finish like this. Simpsons and Lego Star Wars probably about 5 sessions.
Now, the Simpsons game and GTA IV. I atually wanted to go back and get all the collectibles in the Simpsons game whereas the thought of finding and shooting all those pigeons left me cold.
On the vague off chance it is real, the last thing they would do is release a demo. The first thing everyone else would do is reverse engineer it and rip them off.
It's all about the Benjamins.
What do you mean that wasn't the 1911 standard?
In Soviet Russia ... Duke Nukem slams Ars Technica!
That's a rather blinkered outlook.
Geddit?
True. x86 is dead and hopefully this will speed that up.
The ability to take a gadget and make it do something completely different is really overrated. I jailbroke my iPhone for a while, but there wasn't really any compelling reason for me (non l33t) to keep it broken.
While the app store isn't perfect, imagine how much cr@pware and viruses there would be in there if it wasn't checked. When I first got my mac I wanted a cheap/free graphics package to use on it. Do you know how much cruft you have to search through to find something decent? "Use package x" says some blog but doh, it hasn't been updated in two years, and neither has the app. Or it has but it won't run on current/old versions of OSX. App store makes it easier.
As for getting your OS from the store. Well, over the years you have probably replaced a lot of your current OS with system updates. This just takes it one stage further.
Mobile dial up more like.
I have written a iOS game called MatchuM. Its a Mah Jong solitaire game without all the "oriental baggage" you get in those games. It is on the app store but hardly anyone knows its there. It doesn't matter how good your game is, once it has fallen off the "new releases" screen in iTunes then what do you do? How do you let people know its there? The "freeappaday" people want £2.5K to advertise it, but thats probably more then I have spent on hardware in the last 20 years, so thats a no go.
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/matchum/id379622306
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My only complaint about OSX is its toolbars. Every app has them but Apple thinks they demean the application, so they only stick about 5 command buttons on it. So despite having a mouse you have to remember obscure keyboard short cuts to get practically anything done. I know there are menus but they are just so 1980s. Using Xcode on a laptop is like using Wordstar 30 years ago.
The thing is, you can only make a thing so "lean and mean". After you have optimized it to within an inch of its life, then what are you going to spend all that Google ad revenue on?
Like they don't just copy the first paragraph of the article in question and post that as the summary.