(Not really a video game player anymore...)
Maybe because the industry is always worried about using the latest generation of gaming engines?
You miss the window and have to refactor your game for all sorts of differences in the newer engine.
I think you're probably right, no one wants to work on a new Duke Nukem Forever.
I think the major reason is that they set hard release dates. If you're doing many other kinds of software development that don't sell at retail then it's much easier to adjust guidelines as you go. But with video games it's often very important that they meet certain deadlines often to align their game with new console releases or Christmas.
And the customers often aren't very understanding when games get released late. Just look at all the people complaining that Cyberpunk isn't out yet. Sure there are some people who are understanding. But there's also a lot of customers who are making a big deal over not being able to get the new game even though they probably have a steam library with 30 games they never even started.
Makes sense, but other industries also have hard release dates and learned to deal with it. Big budget movies release dates are scheduled with years in advance. Toys are subject to the same Christmas season that affect video games.
So why the video game industry, which is more than 40 years old, never learned how to plan and deal with this issue?
Web browsing isn't resource intense? Somebody hasn't "surfed the web" in the past 10 years...
Exactly. That's one thing* that killed the netbooks. "Let's build a cheap and limited computer to browse the web", they said. At the same time, "the web" got more and more resource-intensive.
(*"one thing" because tablets and smartphones are the other thing that killed netbooks)
This.
I think the project cjellibebi is talking about is Mozilla Shumway, which was abandoned several years ago, pretty much like Gnash and Lightspark. Or, perhaps, GP is thinking of swf2js, which is active, but it's a proprietary project. Parent is right: Ruffle is a better bet in 2020.
Already done, and Michael Sweet is very active in this fork.
Just because I'm paranoid it doesn't mean they are NOT out to get me!!!
FNORD!
Some of that music can't ever be found again. I was a fan of the Israeli band Purple Wage and couldn't stop listening to their songs "Tired", "Daydream" and "Indeed" on MP3.com
After the site went down, I couldn't find that band again. It simply vanished.
And I can't find those damn mp3 files on my backups
You are in luck. The Apple ARM dev kit is pretty much a Mac Mini.
Indeed. I've seen one of the authors of the open letter to the WHO explaining on Twitter what they really wanted to say and the dillemma of using technical terms vs public communication:
1) Airbone vs "opportunistic airbone":
I am one of the scientists who wrote the paper. A critical problem, described by @apoorva_nyc, is lack of nuance on "airborne."
More accurate is "opportunistic airborne", transmits well indoors under crowded, low ventilation, long duration, no masks. Avoid each of those!
2) Aerosol vs true airbone (measles)
Terminology is indeed very confusing. Most importantly, the same word is used to mean very different things by different communities.
Aerosol = nuclei = microdroplet + dry particles (particles below 30 microns or so)
Airborne = through aerosols. BUT means "like measles" to docs
No, but I intend to use the brakes while we're all going gown this very steep hillside called Covid-19 Pandemic.
"Liberal" in this context is contrasted to "radical feminist" (radfem), so it's supposed to be understood as liberal as in moderate, not as liberal as in leftist. Radfems oppose every kind of porn, when liberal feminists usually accepts consensual porn.
You have Macs and give Windows machines to the GRAPHIC DESIGNER? That's... cold.
Just Dance 2020 - How would this even work? It couldn't be any better than the Wii version (just using controller accelerometers and gyros), plus lag kills it.
It will probably be just like Just Dance Now, which uses your smartphone as an accelerometer and your smart tv as a screen. It's already a streamed game and I haven't heard much complaining about lag.
Maybe the higher-ups didn't want to alert members of the Google Calendar team (who knows how many people has access to that source code) about that backdoor. Also, if they used GCal as a spying software -- even if the target were their own employees -- and got caught, the backlash on clients and potential clients would be ENORMOUS.
"What man has done, man can aspire to do." -- Jerry Pournelle, about space flight
