Since when was this a thing? Sounds like something an uneducated bar star would say about finding a partner. "You have to pick any two : Rich Smart or Good Looking". Those are stupid compromises made by pessimists and defeatists.

I could name a few dozen open source projects that are all 3 but I won't. You've interacted with at least a dozen just by posting here.

That's not what hate speech is though. Criticising a political candidate's actions isn't the same as telling him he can't use the same bathrooms as you. Freedom of speech doesn't give you the right to tread over anybody else's.

Freedom of speech is and always has been in the face of the government. You are not free to infringe on the rights of others. In the UK, they consider racism to be exactly that. To cite a common example; One that has to be told entirely too often in my opinion; Freedom of speech doesn't grant you the freedom to scream fire in a crowded room or to claim there's a bomb where there isn't. It has and always will be the freedom to criticise your government. When will people get it through their head? It seems that those who would lay down the freedom of speech claim find it far to convenient of a justification. They can't see what it really means because they don't take the idea of freedom seriously in the first place.

It's not the reliability of the technology I'm concerned about. The reliability of the data coming from those devices are. As far as law enforcement officials are concerned, and rightfully so, any device that hasn't been documented in detail for their department should be considered a magical black box that could do any number of things.

I thought we were on Slashdot. Isn't this the entire primary concern for FOSS being such a big deal? Binaries are essentially magical black boxes that could report anything.

IOS is too restrictive to allow direct ports from open platforms. This is what was being talked about by the OSS pioneers that said walled gardens were a bad thing. Remember that ?

This game is a 2d tile based game. Doesn't take incredible rendering power to blit sprites.

The problem is shitty port's don't sell.

It's not that iphone is less work. They started with a focus on IOS. It's more work to port a highly focused piece of software and they just couldn't handle multiple platforms being a 2 person team. What they ended up porting to Android was such a bug ridden POS that it didn't sell at all. That doesn't mean App's dont sell on the Android. Developers just have to make decent software for it. It's just as easy to make software for Android as it is IOS, given that you plan your project to include both. They obviously relied heavily on IOS frameworks. There is nobody to blame but themselves.

Oh please. This game is nothing to be impressed about. Not jealous at all. I'm only resentful of smear campaigns. All they're saying here is we couldn't release a quality product that sold, so we're blaming the entire Android platform instead of ourselves.

Sale's would be better if they didn't release a shitty port.

It isn't about sanitation. Touch screen devices are just as poo smeared as the average mouse or keyboard is. Touch screen's are just a gimmicky fad. I give them another 2, maybe 3 years tops. They defiantly won't have the longevity that a mouse and keyboard did. Writing UI's that are constantly hidden under fingers is a PITA, end of story. The only good thing coming from the touch screen paradigm is all the multitouch enabled app's. Multi touch is very impressive and there are many more ways to implement it other than a crappy "put your fingers all over your display" solution. A shining example that i'm absolutely ecstatic about is the Playstation Vita. More solutions need to be explored. Greasy grimey display's are getting tiresome.

Their product would sell just as well on the Google Play Store if it wasn't shitty code. The great thing about IOS is anyone who isn't running the newest version is SOL. The android market base is far hotter and developers continue to blame android for not making much money on it, rather than write a decent app that doesn't rely on the IOShit framework.

My guess is they wrote their game on top of the IOShit frameworks and the shitty port job they did wasn't compatible with anything except the cheap obscure android model's they bought to use in house. I am looking at their game, with it's incredibly complex 2d tile based engine, and wondering how shitty their code had to be that they couldn't support anything except 1 platform. This article would be less FUD if it actually went into the reasons why the Android platform is unsustainable. I suspect they just want to point fingers and absolve themselves of horrible coding practices.

He is actually quite the philanthropist and oceanographer. Much more than just making movies. I don't believe he think's he's king of the world. I've never read of him or hear him saying this once. From my recollection, he's actually very humble. As for Ballard, him and Cameron work very closely together. They are both accomplished oceanographers. It was Ballard who loaned the equipment to Cameron to film the Abyss and Titanic. I'm fairly certain he is involved with this submersible project as well.

I don't understand your apprehension with this project. Exploring the ocean is a true 21st century frontier. Cameron will be bringing all the world shots of the deepest parts of the big blue, in glorious 3D IMAX. What a fucking ego whore huh?

If Avatar is Pocahontas, then 2001 Space Odyssey is a western about a lonestar cowboy and his unfaithful companion. Oh and Star Wars is just some Russian opera.

Old stories get retold in new ways every time a story is told. They're all ripoffs of each other. Besides, Avatar never ripped off Pocahontas. It was obviously a Dances with Wolves space adaptation.