Comment Remember 480i? (Score 1) 149
NBC could always cut its OTA affiliate feed back to SDTV.
Increase skill-set, ability and move to a job that pays more
Apparently employers aren't willing to pay enough to relocate new hires anymore. How much savings should one accumulate before moving to a state with jobs that pay more?
The situation for developers targeting it has steadily improved over the past couple of years.
When did that change? I thought the sandbox limitation blocked a lot of applications from the Mac App Store, such as developer-grade text editors and backup utilities.
unless you can get your fork integrated into browsers which people actually use.
I'd like to see how that's been a problem. Is there a well-known case of WebKit not taking a certain outside patch?
There was one FUDster some months ago that was on a website that was arguing against Webkit because, wait for it, it contained "proprietary" technologies.
Are you sure it was against WebKit in general, or specifically against Google Chrome? Google Chrome for PCs includes Adobe Flash Player, for example.
I have precisely zero interest in software updates for a phone, as long as it keeps working the same as when I bought it.
Except it won't "keep[] working the same as when [you] bought it." Security vulnerabilities might be discovered in the operating system. Web sites might start relying on features that the phone's browser doesn't support, such as new JavaScript APIs in the HTML5 stable, and showing you an error message when they fail to detect it. Or they might start relying on features that the operating system's SSL stack doesn't support, such as Server Name Indication (SNI), which is required for name-based virtual hosting of multiple customers' SSL sites, and showing you a certificate error when your browser asks for "first certificate on this IP address" rather than "certificate for pineight.com". SNI is becoming increasingly important in the era of Firesheep and IPv4 address exhaustion, and Android didn't get support for it until Honeycomb (3.0) on tablets and Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0) on phones.
And [Cisco's] routers run IOS.
thats great for the handful of games that have local multiplayer
This handful is larger on consoles than on PCs. There are entire local-multiplayer-centric genres that tend not to get ported to PC, such as party games and fighting games.
but unfortunately that feature has also been stripped
Every Call of Duty game that I've seen still supports split-screen on the Xbox 360. But you're right that I quit Animal Crossing when I discovered that despite the huge CPU power and resolution increase from the DS to Wii, City Folk didn't have split-screen.
Yeah mods, whatever, don't have time to even finish most games, let alone screw around with mods.
So how are budding developers supposed to get their start without mods?
HELP!!!! I'm being held prisoner in /usr/games/lib!
