Silicon Knights: “used games are cannibalising the industry”
Silicon Knights boss Denis Dyack talks about used games effect on development budgets:
“I don’t think as an industry we can afford $300 million budgets. Some games can, don’t get me wrong – for a game like Call of Duty, if they had a $100 million budget, or whatever their budget is, they can afford it. That’s not the industry, that’s sort of a one-off.
Perhaps there is a point after which it makes little sense to spend more money as you simply cannot recoup it in the market. I’m guessing this limit is probably closer to $0 than $300 million.
source Gamesindustry International.
I Won The Windows Phone Challenge, But Lost “Just Because”
This sounds like a situation where I hope some rep from Microsoft will intervene and offer the guy his reward.
via I Won The Windows Phone Challenge, But Lost “Just Because”
Piratepad Beta
This is a online document creation tool that you can work on in realtime with other people with chat. Good for notes and documentation or getting feedback where the other party can make amendments in realtime. (click frog to start)
via Piratepad Beta
iPhone / iPad workday reminder alarms
IOS tip: I wanted a reminder every workday at a certain time. You can’t set these up in Reminder. Nor in Calendar. Only under Clock > Alarms. And these alarms you cannot swipe to dismiss, you have to swipe to unlock the phone then lock it again. Or snooze the alarm from the lock screen. Not nice when driving.
Fork webpages
I’m looking for something a bit unusual. Say you are following the instructions for installing a software package (rl example: http://library.linode.com…/webmin/installing-webmin). Now you find out the instructions are outdated, or incomplete.
How do you keep your notes/additional instructions together with the original? Now you have two problems, your instructions and the original can be updated independently. What happens when the original is updated, or a new version of the software is released?
Wouldn’t it be great if you could fork the webpage and update it (or even submit a pull request to the maintainer)?
Is there any practical way of working this way – or will I be stuck with a notetaker / blog / bunch of outdated textfiles?
A lot of questions – maybe one of you has the answer.
Link: Stop paying your jQuery tax
Speed up your jQuery powered site by moving scripts to the footer.
Turns out that pushing jQuery to the footer is quite easy for the common case. If all we want is a nice
$.readyfunction that we have accessible everywhere we can explicitly define it without jQuery. Then we can pass the functions we capture to jQuery later on after it loads.The big lesson learned is that we could avoided this whole problem if we started off with my proposed helper.
What Happens When You Swear At Your Users
A valuable lesson for anyone running a website:
After working out a few technical kinks and several botched emails, thanks to missing line breaks, we sent out a final test email to ourselves. Unfortunately, it went out to every user
fetchworthy notes • What Happens When You Swear At Your Users.
