Yes, really. A passenger in a car I was driving pulled out his phone going through the Squirrel Hill tunnel near Pittsburgh and was nervous about it for the short time we were in the tunnel. Another got very nervous while driving through Northern PA, and actually wanted me to pull over so he could hop outside the car to check to see if he could get a signal that way. Another stood on the roof of his car trying to get s sign. Just in case.

Especially when they were texting and the cause of the accident

Which is also part of my smartphones as an addiction jeremiad. Do you deny that it is a dangerous thing to text and drive? Anyone who TWD's puts their life and others at real risk every time they are doing it. But they think it is okay, and important, otherwise they wouldn't do it. Deny that is an addiction - it is electronic meth.

Jesus man, I feel sorry for you. What if you are across the country? What if you are in a meeting where you are not allowed to take a phone? What if they die before you get there after being alerted by phone so you should stay with them at all times? You are the perfect example of the modern phone addict.

In my job, I would often spend time out of cell phone range, either on ships, or in meetings where I could not take a phone.

Would you do this job? what if a family member was in the hospital dying while you were on the ship? What if you are in a place where it would take over a day to get home?

And yes, I do know people who are so addicted to their phones, with so many "What if" scenarios that they are completely urbanized, tied to their phone, and get scared if they see one bar or less on their phone. Very sad situation.

Glad you brought that up.

J.R.R. Tolkien has been dead since 1972. Middle Earth Enterprises goes after anything Do not have the nerve to mention H****t, lest ye be sued. The Tolkien family and Middle Earth Enterprises, asre even busy suing each other. So THIS is what the perpetual copyright system is heading toward, Lawsuits and pecuniary extraction

It's a real hoot of a read , The legal travails of a man dead since 1972. And it's the direction we are moving in. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...

Except, the theory is trivially disproved - during the Cretaceous period, the Chicxulub crater and the Deccan traps weren't at each others antipodes.

Not my point. trying to take my point to the extreme would be saying someone panics if they can't see a functional electrical outlet.

I mean seriously, I've had more than one occasion where a person has become very antsy because we were in an area with no cell coverage while traveling. "What if someone needs to get hold of me?"

ANd how does the trend toward perpetual coyright encourage this?

This. A complete lack of thought. There are a litany of reasons that video or film is shot in landscape mode from the get, which is it is more or less how we percieve the world, to the panning effect being more sensible in horizontal format. A vertically formatted horizontal pan would be more likely to induce vomit than an inspiring view.

Now all this goes out the window for still imagery. A portrait of a person's face, which is inherently taller than wide, lends itself to a vertical image. As well, vertically formatted still images have aesthetic qualities which tend toward the optimistic or inspiring.

But video/film, and still images are not at all the same thing, and you sum it up more concisely than I do. It is stupidity. Unencumbered by the thought process.

You do have the choice of holding the camera horizontally. And certainly in photographs there are very valid aesthetic reasons to have the choice.

And that is the reason I call the folks who make the vertical movies "asshats". Because they can make a very nice video if they simply turn their camera horizontally. It will fit on a Television screen, it will fit on a Youtube screen.

True. But making a video involves movement, and often between people and their environment. People tend to be beside each other when they interact. While we can find specific instances where a vertically formatted image might make sense, say, a rocket launch, we have to then decide how it will be shown. If you are going to show the vertically orientated image on a computer screen, or theater screen, or a television screen, you will not now have to fit the image within a specific aspect ratio. Which is almost always horizontal. So right away, you gain absolutely nothing having a video in vertical format, because you are restricted in aspect ratio. So since the image in the end will be roughly the same size, whether it be horizontal or vertically oriented, you shoot for the end product, not some thought of how inconvenient it is to rotate your phone 90 degrees.

Silly boy, because everyone know's it's the "Best Korea".

Some folk think that having to log in or run as anything but administrator, or have any restrictions on their activity at all is killing their productivity. They want Thumb drives, they want dropbox, they want to set up their own email server on their machine. They want to have an open ftp on their machine

Perhaps in your 20 years of experience, you have found a way to allow people to do whatever they want, while providing proper security? You should write a book.

Yes, it's true that unprotected sex with strangers without a condom feels better, but that doesn't mean you can protect them from STD's or pregnancy without them changing any of their habits.

Same goes for computer users. Folks who look at productivity as not having to log in, or if you make them, want to use a password of "Password1", or their child's name or just the really quick to log in 1234567, or set up a dropbox, or really want to use thumbdrives, because "it's so quick and convenient, and those nice people at the trade show gave me one for everyone in my group!" are going to be an issue.

Having a few people hate you might be an indicator that you are doing your job.

I've seen people drive themselves to distraction with your logic. They start sweating when their phone gets to one bar, and refuse to go anywhere with no cell service. Or drive through long highway tunnels. And yet....... somehow we've been able to survive all this time without everyone having instant access to us.

Talk about your first world problems.

After all, don't J.S. Bach's descendants get to make profit on something they never had anything to do with? Shouldn''t that be only fair?

Copyright was conceived to protect musicians rights, not their great great great great grandchildren's.

It's interesting, the asker asks for information about making games and the posters almost universally reply with information about making code. You guys do know these are two completely different activities? (And that computer games are only a small slice of the total gaming universe?)

RTFA. It clearly says that it wasn't all from textbook sales but also from "astute investments". Sounds like the guy worked hard and had his shit together financially.

Use some common sense - unless you have Warren Buffet levels of financial acuity or a great deal of luck, you don't accumulate that much cash via investments unless you start with a pile of cash nearly that size.