Comment Re:Get a new job (Score 1) 495
Exactly! Any big salary increase requires switching to a new employer.
Comment Re:I actually like this idea (Score 1) 352
I use a trackball with my desktop PC. My hand only moves when switching to type. Just my fingers are used to move the cursor.
Comment Re:Maybe true for the teeny-boppers (Score 1) 236
VOIP being built-in to a fast paced game adds enormously to the experience. Many FPS have hardly any plot.
There are too many types of games to say that plot comes before graphics. Lots of casual games also have no plot.
Comment Nice article (Score 1) 92
Eurogamer almost always has quality writing. I'd also say that the analysis of the 4 MMOs is spot on. The Global Agenda gameplay videos speak for themselves.
Comment GamersGate is missing (Score 2, Informative) 227
GamersGate is a good service. Has some exclusives and hard to find games. Just picked up King's Bounty. The Legend and will be picking up the 2nd Sword of the Stars expansion soon.
DRM doesn't seems to be a big deal,
"How many times can I download and/or install my games?
Any game bought on GamersGate is yours to download and install as many times you like. Some games are protected with an activation limit but that limit is easily reset with an email to support@gamersgate.com"
Submission + - First Armed Robots on Patrol in Iraq
An anonymous reader writes: Robots have been roaming Iraq, since shortly after the war began. Now, for the first time — the first time in any warzone — the 'bots are carrying guns. The SWORDS robots, armed with M249 machine guns, "haven't fired their weapons yet," an Army official says. "But that'll be happening soon." The machines have actually been ready to a while, but safety concerns kept 'em off the battlefield. Now, the robots have kill switches, so "now we can kill the unit if it goes crazy," according to the Army. I feel safer already.
Google Shows Off Ad-Supported Cell Phone 290
taoman1 writes "Today Google showed off a ad-supported cellphone that the company plans to offer for free to interested parties. The product could reach the marketplace within a year, and will offer Google search, email, and a web browser. 'The move would echo another recent product launched by a phone industry outsider, Apple Inc.'s iPhone. But Google's product would draw its revenue from a sharply different source, relying on commercial advertising dollars instead of the sticker price of at least US$499 for an iPhone and $60 per month for the AT&T Inc. service plan. Negotiating the fairest way to split those advertising revenues with service providers could be a big hurdle for Google, one analyst said. Another problem is the potential that consumers could be scared off by the prospect of listening to advertisements before being able to make phone calls, said Jeff Kagan, a wireless and telecommunications industry analyst in Atlanta.'"
Comment Re:Human Factors (Score 1) 367
Designing the interface is not trivial: dealing with existing assumptions, attempting to convey new information in a predictable fashion, effective flow of information between system and user... none of these things is easy. Or better said, if they were trivial for your projects, then your projects are trivial (not that there's anything wrong with that).
As for your statement about MVC being "crap", all you're doing is exposing your ignorance of MVC and patterns in general. The MVC pattern is the *only* way to accurately display changing data in several different ways (or different places). Perhaps a clearer way of saying that is that if you're keeping several different displays up to date on the same changing information, I can go into your design and point to a model, some views, and a controller and show you how you are in fact using MVC.
If MVC "fell down" then you didn't implement MVC properly. I'll admit that there are a lot of half-baked event models around calling themselves MVC (servlets w/ entity beans quickly comes to mind), but their failure to be effective isn't MVC's fault. When a badly designed car falls apart after three months, it's silly to blame the concept of a car and say that the car concept "fell down". The correct conclusion is that you were cheap and you should buy a better car next time.
Regards,
Ross
As for your statement about MVC being "crap", all you're doing is exposing your ignorance of MVC and patterns in general. The MVC pattern is the *only* way to accurately display changing data in several different ways (or different places). Perhaps a clearer way of saying that is that if you're keeping several different displays up to date on the same changing information, I can go into your design and point to a model, some views, and a controller and show you how you are in fact using MVC.
If MVC "fell down" then you didn't implement MVC properly. I'll admit that there are a lot of half-baked event models around calling themselves MVC (servlets w/ entity beans quickly comes to mind), but their failure to be effective isn't MVC's fault. When a badly designed car falls apart after three months, it's silly to blame the concept of a car and say that the car concept "fell down". The correct conclusion is that you were cheap and you should buy a better car next time.
Regards,
Ross
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