The Netgear ReadyNAS hardware is Linux-based, with a debian repo, you can ssh into it, apt get, etc. Tiny, uses very little power, and I get much faster data transfers than I had with a hand-built Linux box.

AFAICT, if you're like many indie game devs, mom and dad feed you.

git commit -am 'New feature: love thy neighbor. This should permanently fix WorldView.pl bug where eye_for_an_eye function was causing deadlock.'

The "slippery slope" argument is powerful. And usually false. This is a targeted regulation by one city to curb its costs and nothing more.

> I still shudder about a self-taught contractor who wasted weeks trying to write a sort.

Ha, indeed. I was self-taught initially, starting to code as a hobby at around 12 years of age. I specifically remember the first time I had a problem where I had to sort stuff, in Apple 2 BASIC. It took me a while to "invent" what I later learned was called "bubble sort". I learned a lot from figuring stuff out myself, but I have no doubt now that my high-school CS classes (using Pascal) and my later CS degree had a huge positive effect on my abilities to design and code.

It is not libelous to claim that "When people search for Bettina Wullf, they often search for 'Bettina Wulff prostitute'" if it is factual. That is the only claim google makes as inferred from its search engine. Facts are not libelous, and if you think they are, then you are absolutely

It seems every single anti-commenting post in this thread is posted AC. There's a reason for this.

**With all the weight saved, get a better/larger battery

What weight savings? With a slideout keyboard, your so-called "dumb phone" (with high-quality camera, bluetooth, speakerphone, usb, and mp3/ogg playback!!!) will easily weight more than an iphone.

I'm not sure what you are trying to point out with this example. An optimizing compiler likely optimizes away the constructor code. Why would the program stop inside the Foo constructor?

Relax. I mean you no harm. I was merely pointing out that your earlier statement, "100% not true for LINUX/UNIX" was, it seemed to me, incorrect. I displayed code that, on my Linux box, demonstrated my point. The language spec does, as you correctly claim, leave it to the compiler the details of how to implement this.

Compile and run this on your Linux box. This is common enough that it's good to know what happens under the hood. In particular, consider the code path that would have to be taken in order to call global constructors *without* using pre-main hooks. (Note: I had to play with angle/square brackets to get the include line to stay untouched by html.)

#include [cstdio]

class Foo {
public:
    Foo() {
        puts("Before main.\n");
    }
};

static Foo gFoo;

int main(int argc, char* argv[]) {
    puts("In main.");
}

To be fair, Big Huge Games was going to be closed by THQ if they had not been purchased.

"It's way too easy to contribute to making the world shit and then deflect all responsibility" - Anonymous Coward

Indeed.

No, this system is designed to the resolve "single vehicle incidents", where typically a soccer mom on the phone (irresponsible) driver loses control of the vehicle

FTFY ;-)

> Wouldn't it be infinitely cheaper and just as effective at keeping the upgrade treadmill running and the pirated copys stopped to merely upload maps and textures, rather than trying to run a whole video connection across the net?

The video-connection approach means any game engine can be adapted to or built for this model fairly easily without any specialized content download infrastructure.