Comment Re:One word against this idea: gloves ... in winte (Score 1) 750
Maybe it isn't fingerprint related but is a giant needle that stabs into your hand to perform a blood test. Shudder.
Comment Re:If you want to be a well paid game programmer.. (Score 1) 1086
I just thought you should know you're wrong.
Comment Re:If you want to be a well paid game programmer.. (Score 1) 1086
This is spot on. Also if you want to be a shader guru, not knowing higher math will prevent that. Games are probably rare in the software world in that math is actually used a lot.
Comment Re:Is it "too real"? (Score 5, Informative) 607
Han didn't shoot first. Han just shot. Greedo died. Get it right!
Comment Hah! (Score 4, Insightful) 180
This is an insanely cheap way for them to get software developed for their brand. A straight $100k with no significant % of income is a rip off for the developer in this market. A good branded Pong app will make millions. A similar brand only gets about 20-25% of the sales. But I'm sure they'll get plenty of entries. Ah well, to be young and ignorant again.
Comment Re:It's not a Casino, because it's not about luck. (Score 1) 542
So where is the game that's really good but not making a lot of money here?
Comment Re:It's not a Casino, because it's not about luck. (Score 2) 542
I can only speak as a game developer, but I have yet to be pointed to a game on the App Store that didn't make any money but had all the pieces together to be a commercially successful game.
Comment Thanks Sir (Score 1) 1521
Happy trails and thanks for being my first site and shockingly still one I visit regularly.
Comment I expected a different ending (Score 1) 154
Did anyone else expect the video to lead into this at the end?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRhPM2wMzH8
Just checking.
Comment Re:Obama hates linux! (Score 2, Interesting) 794
Submission + - Inside Apple's iPhone SDK Gag Order (infoworld.com)
snydeq writes: "InfoWorld's Tom Yager takes a closer look at Apple's iPhone SDK confidentiality agreement, which restricts developers from discussing the SDK or exchanging ideas with others, thereby leaving no room for forums, newsgroups, open source projects, tutorials, magazine articles, users' groups, or books. But because anyone is free to obtain the iPhone SDK by signing up for it, Apple is essentially branding publicly available information as confidential. This 'puzzling contradiction' is the 'antithesis of the developer-friendly Apple Developer Connection' on which the iPhone SDK program is based, Yager contends. 'You'll see arguments from armchair legal analysts that the iPhone developer Agreements won't stand up in court — but those analysts certainly won't stand up in court on your behalf.' Anyone planning to launch an iPhone forum or open source project should have 'a lawyer draft your request for exemption, and make sure that the Apple staffer granting it personally commits to status as authorized to approve exceptions to the iPhone Registered Developer and iPhone SDK Agreements,' Yager warns."
Submission + - Apple finds multiple security holes in Ruby (zdnet.com)
ruphus13 writes: Ruby continues to be in the spotlight, but this time for the wrong reasons. "A member of Apple's security team has discovered multiple serious security vulnerabilities in Ruby, the popular open-source scripting language. According to an advisory on the Ruby project site, Apple's Drew Yao reported at least six of the vulnerabilities, which can be exploited to cause a denial-of-service condition or the execution of arbitrary code." The article goes on to state, "These vulnerabilities are likely to crop up in just about any average ruby web application. And by "crop up" I mean "crop up exploitable from trivial user-specified parameters". It's not hard to begin imagining cases where Ruby/Rails programmers use code similar to the samples above to routinely handle user input."
Google Invests In Genetic Indexing 74
Bibek Paudel point us to a BusinessWeek report on Google's interest in the cataloging and analyzing of people's DNA. Google has recently invested in DNA screening firms Navigenics and 23andMe, which test customers' DNA for characteristics such as ancestry and predisposition for certain diseases. The customers are then able to give the information to their doctors. This is not Google's first foray into the medical industry.
"Google wants to plant an early stake in a potentially large new market around genetic data. 'We are interested in supporting companies and making investments in companies that [bolster] our mission statement, which is organizing the world's information and making it universally accessible and useful,' Google spokesman Andrew Pederson says. 'We felt it was important to get involved now, at the early stage, to better understand the information generated by this fast-moving field.'"
Deal Reportedly Reached In Writers' Strike 333
BlueshiftVFX writes to let us know that the writers' strike may be over. CNBC and other media are quoting former Disney CEO Michael Eisner: "It's over. They made the deal, they shook hands on the deal. It's going on Saturday to the writers in general... A deal has been made, and they'll be back to work very soon."
Submission + - The Curious Histories of Generic Domain Names (itworld.com)
cheezitmike writes: ITworld.com uses the Wayback Machine to document the histories of five generic domain names: music.com, eat.com, car.com, meat.com, and milk.com. "In this brave new Web 2.0 world, it's almost a badge of honor to have a Web site name that only hints at what the user will find there (see Flickr) or is so opaque as to offer no clue at all as to what the Web site is about (see del.icio.us). It's easy to forget the first Internet gold rush of the mid-to-late '90s, when dot-com domain names based on ordinary (and, investors hoped, marketable) nouns and verbs were snapped up by hopeful companies from the humble geeks who had purchased them (often ironically) in the early '90s."
