I'm wondering how kickstarter is going to be long term. It seems like a lot of crappy games manage to get funding which amazes me. Kickstarter is for most projects a means of preselling the end result of the project and from what I can tell, the money put into it usually dwarfs what you would be paying if you were buying it retail. I have a cool game idea that I've been working with and its feasible, unique, and doable, but I don't have the free time. With kickstarter I could secure money that I would lose by reducing the hours I put into my job (or quitting if enough people donate) and dedicate my time to the project, then turn and make a good profit if it sells. Worst case, I at least get paid if I set my target threshold high enough, and based on what I'm seeing, I'll get paid more than I'm being paid right now.

My only issue is that I hate top skimmers and there are two on these project donations. Kickstarter takes 3% and the credit card companies take another 3%. The economics of it always make it a win since there is no risk in putting your project up, but still, is there a kickstarter like website that takes a smaller cut?

If you haven't understood why republicans believe the government is inherently frivolous in its spending, then here's a textbook example of why they think that. Zuckerberg didn't earn his billions. Period. He earned something, but not that much money. That is investor's money. He just dumped someone else's money down the toilet. Actually, more precisely he just paid off someone else (the CEO of instagram) with someone else's money.

I'm guessing instagram's biggest users are under 18 girls. I don't doubt that's a prime audience since they are probably loose with their parent's money. Nevertheless, I'm skeptical the company with ~15 employees is worth 67 million dollars an employee. Mind you, the Los Angeles Dodgers were sold for $2 billion dollars.

mod up, about time someone who actually saw it gave an opinion on what it was and not speculation on what they think its going to be.

One thought is, would you consider it flat, or was the depth realistic?

Drop the sales tax entirely and raise income taxes. Problem solved

last time I had a personal website up, 60% of it was buffer overflow bots, 20% were old IIS exploit bots and 10% were slashdot scans whenever I made a post.

Really though, firewalls in the US should come with the entire Chinese, Russian, and Indian IP range blocked for incoming connections by default.

I really hope your trolling because win7 search is worthless. Won't search the contents of any non-MS file extension that isn't named ".txt"

Then it lies to you and tells you no such file exists. In fact, it even takes a while to search files it has no idea how to search, like ASCII FORMATTED files!

Then it has keywords you have to memorize and automatic wildcards you can't disable.

And MS DESIGNED IT THIS WAY. THIS IS WORKING AS THEY WANT IT.

And they won't change it! This is the first step for any company that is doomed to fail, is that they ignore their customers and don't fix problems. This issue was brought up years ago.

Windows 7 search has cost me hours of productivity, most of it wasted trying to figure out why its content search wasn't working only to eventually find it out was by design.

Who's "we" and why would you be past that? Usually by the time I realize what broke and how it broke, I'm too far in the code to recover anything. Example: I got an exception on line 11 due to a bug on line 8.

Now what would be kind of cool is to save the program state prior to entering a function and then restarting from that function entry point. Of course that wouldn't work if your function modified an external file or something... Maybe Visual Studio already does this in a version newer than I use? Actually I'd appreciate if someone could fill me on this, I'm always looking for ways to be more efficient.

see, why weren't you stooping over the patent examiner's shoulder when he was reading it?

They should require that patents be written in minimal english rather than obfuscated english.

In apple's defense though, they probably had to re-develop their software over and over again when they found design holes. In contrast, a copy-cat only needs to design it once.

I suppose the alternative to this is that your phone must provide unbridled access to you wallet app if you manage to unlock it. Or an perhaps having user acccounts for your phone to restrict which apps are accessible (one for your kids).

Personally, I'd like to have an "at-ease" app which restricts the interface on phones such that a toddler can touch anything and you don't have to worry about them leaving the app then calling someone.

in fact, think of this - their simulator probably took way more man hours than their developed solution to this problem

I doubt it hasn't already been solved. I think they go "hey this would be a nice project for schools". I think they humor us. Really, this is basic physics and vectors. Their's no hardware to read, you get a state which is your current position, direction, and vector and your basically turning it into a homing missile. I think what the reality is that their hardware isn't going to perform like their simulation models it which is that catch to all this.

You could have graphics cards on a 2 year lifecycle and have the game automatically pick the quality based on the one detected. Virtually every game no-adays can run on graphics cards older than 4 years, just it doesn't look as good as it could.

I think the main purpose for this is to simplify hardware requirements for a PC. "I have a steamBox 1" is simple, you make games and you say "compatible with steambox 1 or higher". Likewise, it ensures that nobody does stuff something stupid like skimp on dirt cheap RAM then wonder why the game plays like crap.

Add a controller and mouse and keyboard support and you got something spiffy. Still waiting on someone to make a wireless mouse/keyboard capable of the high resolution you get from a wired device. Right now I have USB extension cords strung across my living room and a mouse and keyboard on my ottoman with a high end computer hooked up to a 65" 3d TV.

close, a trojan doesn't have a replication method classification, a trojan is just a piece of malware that provides a backdoor to your computer. A trojan could be a worm or a virus or just malware.

Come to think of it, viruses in their "true" form are pretty rare now-a-days. Pretty much everything is just straight-up malware/adware or worms. I wonder if it has to do with the fact all programs are at least 32-bit now and don't run machine code directly.

Didn't Dr. Evil demand that kind of money back in 1960 and it didn't exist yet?

I'd file this under "no shit sherlock" but its a grad student getting their conclusion without clearly be trained by a knowledgeable industry insider. Then again, maybe they were just doing research that proved what they already knew. A lot of people know this already and actively implement features to work around these problems. I'd disclose more but um lets just say I can't... :)

That said I'm not aware of any SSDs using more than 2 bits per cell. My understanding is that it's not practical... yet. I see OCZ claims they're going to do it, but its a lot easier to say you're going to do it than to actually do it and provide a reliable drive that isn't going to get RMA'ed in droves. You have to consider the development cost is going to be higher as you pull your hair out trying to prevent customer data loss. Beating the hell out of NAND takes a lot of time.