This is true, but I don't really need the TIVO to be actually built into the TV for that to be useful. In fact I might like my display from Samsung, my DVR from TIVO and my streaming video client from Apple. I don't want to pay for a bunch of stuff in my actual TV that I don't actually want.

Still, this might be the way it ends up going if they can use it to get people on a more aggressive upgrade cycle for their TVs.

I think the implication here is that you should give away your style guide for free to give every developer access to it, hopefully leading to a more cohesive platform experience.

Isn't he the guy who made that hovercraft?

Also leads to a situation where incumbents have a financial reason to be defensive about their code. Try suggesting to your boss that something he wrote years ago has to be re-written if his bonus is riding on it.

the reality is, any developer who is willing to put out a game that runs poorly on the 360, will do the same thing on the 361 as soon as its common enough.

The real question is, why does any game developer put in a cutscene that drops to 15fps when they know damn well that all the Xbox360s in the world will run the cut scene at that same shitty rate.

If you fix every problem with printf debugging you are likely to waste a lot of time when you are solving problems that are easy to solve in IDE debuggers. Sure, I still fall back to printf debugging when its the best tool for the job and sometimes its really the only tool for the job but its only one tool.

Really the best advice might be to understand how to use tools. I don't mean go out and learn every tool you can, or master one IDE and source control system. I mean try to understand how IDEs and debuggers work in general along with source control, build systems, test systems and analysis tools. Obviously you want to become proficient with your toolset but understanding how you might manage source control branches to manage a release or what kind of analysis tool you might use to find a performance problem or a memory leak.

I think the best advice is to work at a place where a decent number of people understand these things and learn from them but finding such a place can be difficult especially when you are inexperienced.

You must be a blast at parties.

Something is wrong with that.

My car costs, say 20 grand, when it gets damaged they tell me the cost of the damage, if its 10% of the value of the car, 2 grand, then you usually fix the car. They are saying that its not economical to spent 10% of the value of the craft to repair it, unless its more than half way through its viable life span there must be something more going on. The cost of repair has got to be closer to the cost of replacement to make it economically infeasable to repair the plane.

Maybe they are talking about the costs to re-certify it for flight, but in my world, you know the one the rest of us live in, that would be listed as part of the cost of the repair. My mechanic doesn't just quote me the cost of parts when he tells me what a repair will cost.

The question is not what is more important, the question is which of these holds the greatest economic opportunity for America and Americans. Manufacturing hardware or "manufacturing" software.