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Comment Re:Disturbing and possibly misleading metric (Score 1) 770

While your statement is logically true, it appears to insinuate that I didn't read the text, whereas I did, so who the fuck are you to insult me by suggesting otherwise, and has the additional problematic characteristic that it has nothing to do with what I am talking about and therefore further supports my personal opinion that Slashdot has become a shithole unworthy of the slightest consideration.

Comment Re:Disturbing and possibly misleading metric (Score 1) 770

This is biased logic, too. I can bias it the other way: if you're an application developer and you want a platform feature that is not yet released, and you need to wait for 6 months instead of one year, then you will get half your market six months sooner.

Also, as an application developer, I can tell you the worst limitation is the hardware, not the software. Most of the time, missing OS features can be emulated. But if the GPU only has half the VRAM, no update can fix that and the application is likely to need a degraded mode.

Comment Disturbing and possibly misleading metric (Score 2) 770

I know it's hard to get a meaningful metric, but this chart makes me wonder about the trustworthiness of the study. There are approximately two major Android releases per year whereas there is only one major iOS upgrade per year. Thus "two major releases behind" means an average of 15 months late for an Android device, whereas "one major release behind" means an average of 18 months late for an iOS device. Yet by the look of the legend, the first one is supposed to be worse than the second one.

Comment Re:Let's get this straight (Score 0) 122

I think I can guarantee that no chat logs could exist that show Goatse Security members discussing selling or using the information in an illegal way. Or they would be fakes.

I have personally answered requests sent to Goatse Security for a while, and have constantly refused all offers to buy or even have a look at the data. I am pretty sure some of the requests were bait to see just how greedy we were, so if the people who tried are honest, they will be able to confirm that no matter the amount of money proposed, we said no.

Comment Re:first post! (Score 1) 154

Games already are on the very limits of a platform. They already are optimized to the breaking point. There’s nothing left.
You can only make the textures and models crappier and remove some physics and collision detection.

And your point is that eg. Uncharted was optimised to the breaking point, and there was no way Uncharted 2 would look better, with better textures, models, physics and collisions?

The PS3 hardware is very complicated. Very few programmers can claim to master both the PS3 hardware and video game related algorithms. And most of them probably work at Naughty Dog or Insomniac Games.

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