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Aug 10

This is funny, but when you’re actually a developer, this isn’t funny at all. One can spend hundreds of hours writing great software only to have the…

submitted by MackDaddy1 to programming [link] [17 comments]

…of the apps on the app store being junk, I’d agree with you. They should make a trial api so people can run an app once to check it out (for those devs that don’t make a lite version). I buy many apps and more than once I’ve been screwed by apps that crash every 5 seconds and apps that don’t have all the listed features.
permalinkweej 6 points7 points8 points 1 hour ago[+] (3 children)weej 6 points7 points8 points 1 hour ago[-]Although the Android market place sucks (interface and search), I do like the purchasing policy. A consumer has up to 24 hrs to uninstall the app and get a refund. Does Apple not allow any such trial period? No, I don’t own an iPhone.
permalinkparentflogic 1 point2 points3 points 1 hour ago[+] (2 children)flogic 1 point2 points3 points 1 hour ago[-]What wut? Google made the search for the android market suck? But thats what they do. That’s like the Steve deciding the iPhone should be a dirty beige.
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Aug 10

Et tu, Israel? "A singer who performed in front of a ‘mixed audience’ of men and women was lashed 39 times to make him ‘repent’, after a ruling…

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…M” and what not - you are defending the indefensible. Bad form, if you ask me.

It’s in the context of a religious ruling, it involves corporeal punishment. It is not in the context of a porn movie, and I imagine you do realize the difference.
permalinkparentkleopatra6tilde9 4 points5 points6 points 1 hour ago[+] (3 children)kleopatra6tilde9 4 points5 points6 points 1 hour ago[-]Where have you been when the introduction of sharia law to Britain was discussed on reddit? If this is common practice, why shouldn’t Muslims be allowed to have their own courts?
permalinkparentBraveSirRobin 2 points3 points4 points 1 hour ago[+] (2 children)BraveSirRobin 2 points3 points4 points 1 hour ago[-]There have been Rabbinic courts in Britain for decades. The whole argument was nothing more than very thinly veiled racism.
permalinkparentkleopatra6tilde9 2 points3 points4 points 1 hour ago[+] (1 child)kleopatra6tilde9 2 points3 points4 points 1 hour ago[-]The discussion about sharia courts? Probably, but it could have been…

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Aug 10

Guess which one didn’t get to walk on the moon?

submitted by SeymourLevov to science [link] [11 comments]

…Aldrin and Armstrong were at most 50 feet away from the nearest human (each other) as were the other moonwalkers and the non-Mercury Project orbiters (for the US, anyway). Only the solo flyers count.
permalinkparentKozmo199 26 points27 points28 points 19 hours ago[+] (6 children)Kozmo199 26 points27 points28 points 19 hours ago[-]The edge of space (the outer limits of the stratosphere) are only about 30 km from the surface of the planet. I’ve been further than that from other people on camping trips.
permalinkparentDJPho3nix 32 points33 points34 points 18 hours ago[+] (0 children)DJPho3nix 32 points33 points34 points 18 hours ago[-]You’re assuming the balloon is directly over another human being.
permalinkparentCaptnHector 4 points5 points6 points 17 hours ago[+] (1 child)CaptnHector 4 points5 points6 points 17 hours ago[-]Not doubting you, just wondering: where did you go camping? That’s very remote.
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Aug 10

The Biggest Games of Fall 2010

Every year, it gets more out of hand.

…Do you remember that huge room at the beginning of Assassin’s Creed 2 full of hundreds of Animii chambers? Brotherhood finally reveals the secret behind that strange warehouse: those beds are used to train Templar Knights as assassins. Basically, Brotherhood gives you a way to enjoy some more Assassin’s Creed without having to hold out for the still far-off AC3, but this will be a very different game than what you might be expecting. Ezio’s still in the game, and you’re still in Rome, but instead of focusing solely on killing targets, building up and improving Rome (like improving your villa in the last game) takes a much more important role. Brotherhood also introduces new multiplayer modes (the focus of our previews so far) for up to eight players. You use the same tricks and tactics as in Assassin’s Creed 2, but the men you have to dispatch now are real people, and there’s a good chance that they’re out to get you as well….

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Aug 10

DRM Doesn’t Work Because it Doesn’t Increase Profits

The basic misunderstanding of companies is the reason why anti-piracy measures will never work as a means of increasing profits.

…of all pirated copies are a lost sale, then game companies are losing one-third to one-half of their sales to piracy. When people bring up the argument that you think that every incidence of piracy is a lost sale that’s stupid , I really don’t even regard that as a serious argument anymore. I regard it as I’m going to put up a strawman argument, pretend that the games industry believes it, shoot down the argument, then pretend that I’m smarter than the games-industry and believe the polar opposite idea: that piracy has zero effect.
I’d also recommend comparing the piracy rates of Modern Warfare 2 on the XBox versus the PC. It’s harder to pirate games on the XBox (you need to buy a mod-chip, and also have to worry about getting banned by Microsoft). It’s much easier to pirate on the PC. The result?…

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Aug 10

Fish Hadouken! (GIF)

Hadouuuuuuuuuuuuken!!!

…Where would humans be if it weren’t for the people taking time away from their jobs, from the friends, and from their families to make animated gifs of street fighter characters hadoukening fish at people?
Nowhere. That’s where….

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Aug 10

On Morality and Making Choices Matter in Video Games

This amazing in-depth article explores the concept of morality in video games, how it affects us as players, and how game developers could use it to create better, more involving games.

…Have you played Heavy Rain yet? Talk about a gripper. And in there, you have many different moral choices you can make that strongly effect the outcome. One (justified) argument is that the killer is always the same at the end, which would be awesome if it were different based on your choices, but this brings around a VERY crucial reason why morality is so ancillary to the canon of a game:
IT IS VERY EXPENSIVE TO DEVELOP MORE THAN ONE STORYLINE!
This is why we see it rarely happening. Lets say you install 3 simple 3-option choices throughout the game. That’s 3 different scenarios for each 3 different story. That’s 3 for every 3 for every 3 that’s 27 congruent stories that need to be written. With Mass Effect, this isn’t a big deal, as it’s a core part of the game, and in an ever-shifting narrative, it’s possible to develop such a branching story. But, in a game with a very specific narrative, this is not very doable. You’re devoting so much resource into the game, it’s prohibitively expensive to make…

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Jul 10

Ghost Recon Alpha Teaser Trailer [HD]

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Jul 10

The 16 Worst Comic Book Video Games

Comics and video games are meant to be together! So why are there so many utterly dreadful adaptations?

…s what happened here. The X-Men are all but identical oddly colored, vaguely humanoid blobs. Hitting your enemies is just about impossible, by projectile or punching, and the people making the game had obviously never read a comic book, as the enemies were an odd hodgepodge of giant insects and monsters. You played one X-Men, while the computer played another, though it usually died within seconds. We can barely do competent teammate AI in this day and age, how the hell did they think it would work on the NES? You know, there was one level in this game where you had to chose a path to try and find a boss. If you chose the wrong one, you had to fight all the way to the end of the level, fight all the way back, and then go in the other direction. For masochists only.3. Incredible Hulk: Pantheon SagaNot many people remember this game, but when it debuted it was instantly hailed as one of the worst games ever. You beat everything in the game by punching it. Enemies, walls, switches….

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Jul 10

YouTubers Getting Suspended Due to False Copyright Claims

Vandals have struck YouTube with false DMCA claims. Since YouTube’s policy is to suspend first and ask questions later, flagged videos are removed before they are investigated

…Chuggaaconroy is my idol. The first time I saw one of his videos, I was amazed by the work he did. I had no idea that something like this would even be possible. He puts his heart and soul into making these videos. It takes true detacation to take the time to make these for us. There were times where we were treating him unfairly. During Mother 3, he got a ton of complaints and insults about the Kumatora artwork saying that the artist should die. People were also putting spoilers in the comments of what happens at the end of Mother 3. And I remember during Paper Mario TTYD, people were yelling at him saying to make more videos more often because the viewers deserved it for making him what he is today. There were times where we treated Chuggaaconroy like garbage, and even so, he always forgave us. He’s a true hero in my eyes. And theres someone out there who thinks that they can just take all the hard work that Chuggaa, NCS, and everyone else did and throw it all away, that’s just heartless. I’m starting LP’s…

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