Soooo then when you unallocate memory you n-times random overwrite it.

Welcome to what PC gamers have been saying for a longggg time. And guess what? The legit consumers are the ones who will get screwed.

Of course they'll be sued for antitrust violations when Opera and Mozilla releases much less buggy solutions.

Autolook does not a good control scheme make.

Sure it might be a fun way to play... but the game partially plays for you.

That's like saying the Xbox is more accurate than PC because the game has autoaim... only just autoaiming the camera, not the weapon itself.

I think the key is not how fast of a typist a programmer is... more that they know their way around a keyboard... because if they don't, they probably weren't programming for long.

Algorithms themselves do not have transistors to double.

Not just the program's source code... that's not even required. You have source code (and the legal right to mess with it provided you sharealike) for the platform itself.

Imagine how much better WINE would be if they didn't need to spend so much time trying to figure out how Windows worked... and could just read its source-code.

Not true. You're allowed to view, modify, and port dependency code in open source OSes.

Tell that to the judge who ruled in Apple's favour or Apple's lawyers who posed that argument. Fact of the matter is, a program making a copy of itself from a hard-disk drive to RAM is in violation of the DMCA.

They have a don't-ask-don't-tell policy to closet Android users.

Actually Linux (and similar copylefted OSes and libraries) doesn't qualify as part of this because you can legally uproot support provided you retain copyleft.

Many other platforms are becoming increasingly difficult to emulate or otherwise provide support to applications outside of the original platform. PS2 emulation is dead-in-the-water without an encrypted dump from a real PS2... Apple sues unauthorized vendors of Apple products.

... why? Because everyone who uses (read: turns on) a Mac violates the DMCA -- and Apple reserves the right to sue you if you piss them off for some reason.

Apple is the epitome of ridiculous when it comes to locking down and locking in their customers. But yes... videogame platforms are just as bad. That's what you get when you pay people to be middlemen between your digital hardware and your digital art... they exert the rights you gave them for being middlemen.

Yeah it's because there's not enough RAM in the modern consoles to look good at split screen for the most part. We've also seen it last generation where the only thing separating many Xbox 1 games and PS2 games was that the Xbox had splitscreen multiplayer and the PS2 did not.

Whoa whoa whoa whoa, I did hear that one before.

Gentlemen... two words. Zombie Snitches.

That's not true at all... ... you can derive value even if you don't sell your product.

Ad supported also isn't the only other way either.

Exactly what I'm nervous about... do indies or hobbyists need to pay obscene bills to be certified that "yes there's blood on the screen" for something that they might make ridiculously little on, if they charge for it at all?