If what I think happened happened.. did I really not read about it until now?

Take Trine as an example; it is one of the best looking games I've ever seen, and it runs wonderfully even on mediocre hardware (by today's standards):

• It doesn't look like anything else. It's not just Postal or one of those games that are reskins, those are boring
• If they had just put a new story and artwork on an existing engine anyone could see their success and just do the same thing; they've got their own engine so only they could release Trine 2, and reap the benefits
• With stuff like game engines the reason they're so massive and expensive is because yes they are incredible technology, but also because they're so adaptable to so many different games. (Relatively speaking) If your make an engine for your company's game it might serve that game beautifully even though it took nowhere near $200k to write, just because they didn't need the huge depth and flexibility of a full engine

They made $4.27bn in revenue last year, I think you've got Facebook and Twitter confused.

I think that is how "the coke addict" would phrase it.

Oh you're in trouble now..

Maybe if we install Linux in the prison monitoring systems? I'm pretty sure studies have shown that in trial studies in German prisons there was a high correlation with lower recidivism rates

"Don't shoot at ghosts, rookie. It gets you laughed at."

Based on this article I would say you can't develop for a phone with it.. And frankly I wouldn't want to see peoples BASIC scripts up alongside actual applications in any app store.

Definitely not the approach we take, and our users love that we can always restore old data. There's nothing that makes the people you work with quite as appreciative as being able to undo a major crisis that would otherwise have cost them several hours of work.

Of course in an software company there might be a different relationship, the role of the IT department varies depending on the needs of the organization, so you're not wrong but neither are the people who disagree with you.

18km wide, I dont think GP was talking about the radius.