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Hopefully they get rid of the requirement of discs to play the game (even if you copy the game to the hard drive today, you still need to insert the dic to play the game, I think). Or maybe they could require the discs, but do so wirelessly (i.e., if the disc is resting happily in a spindle within a few hundred feet, the system can detect that and allow the game to play from the hard drive). I wouldn't want network activation unless there is a high limit on the number of systems a game can be installed on (say, 10, and it resets every year).
And while I'm at it, an SSD rather than an HDD would be nice. Hopefully for a price that isn't 5x the typical market price.
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This month marks the third anniversary of Apple’s iPad. Since it hit the market, it has sold over 120 million units, and tablets in general have taken off. But large-screen tablets like the 9.7-inch iPad have remained dear for many budgets. The latest iPad and Microsoft’s new Surface RT start at $499. Even lower-priced, full-size tablets from name-brand companies typically cost $300 to $400. To pay significantly less, you’ve had to opt for a much smaller unit, in the 7-inch range. Now, major manufacturers are lowering prices for some larger-screen tablets to at least slightly below $300. What's your favorite tablet, and how are you using it?
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: What's your favorite tablet, and how are you using it?
I got an Asus Transformer Pad (TF300T), and since it was refurbished I only paid $330 for it (pretty close to fitting the article's limit). It's made a great replacement for my laptop, the battery life is significantly better (I can watch Netflix during my free time between classes, only uses ~13% of the battery per hour...and that's just the tablet's battery, not counting the extra battery in the dock). And I find myself using the keyboard less and less, I still pull it out when I want to prop the tablet on a table, or when typing anything more than a couple sentences, but I don't do that often when I'm away from a desktop.
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Terrence Dorsey wrote: What's your favorite tablet, and how are you using it?
I have an iPad Mini (known in India as i Padmini)*.
My next purchase will be a 21" tablet. I wonder if I can name it iMaxipad! 
As to use, I fling birds at pigs on my tablet! I study projectile trajectories and the resulting impact.
* Padmini is a woman's name in India.
modified 21-Mar-13 12:19pm.
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The canvas element was introduced with HTML5 and provides an API for rendering on the web. The API is simple, but if you've never done graphics work before it might take some getting used to. It has great cross-browser support at this point, and it makes the web a viable platform for games.... In this article, we're going to create a 2d game with canvas; a real game with sprites, animations, collision detection, and of course, explosions! What's a game without explosions? Build your own Canvas-based game, or just grab the code and start exploding stuff.
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A common traffic pattern we see at Shopify is the flash sale, where a product will be discounted heavily or only available for a very short period of time. Our customer's flash sales can cause traffic spikes an order of magnitude above our typical traffic rate. This blog post highlights one of the problems dealing with these traffic surges that we solved during our preparation for the holiday shopping season. In a flash sale scenario, with our app servers under high load, response time grows. As our response time increases, customers attempting to buy items will hit refresh in frustration. This was causing a snowball effect that would contribute to reduced availability. One solution per customer. Limited to product in stock. Operators are standing by...
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Good point. By the way, what does IIS do? HTTP 499 is nginx specific...
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Breaking it down, what I've called "buildable artifacts" usually means source code, which should be housed in a version control system. A build process takes those artifacts, and produces new artifacts: artifacts which are ready to be deployed with a deployment process. These artifacts are typically binaries, usually packaged into some kind of format, and stamped with metadata explaining the contents. This idea of decoupling the build process from the deployment process is important. Package deployment isn't a new problem. Which solutions do you think work best?
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Think you put the wrong title on this one (or I didn't get the joke of using the same title twice). But it's not working on Firefox for me, takes me to Paypal still...even after I remembered to enable JS for that page. Good to know about the possibility though, I'll have to be even more careful with links now.
EDIT: Never mind, it's just my habit of middle-clicking links...it works just fine when I left-click though.
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Thanks for the heads up. Copy paste error on my part. Fixed now.
Director of Content Development, The Code Project
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Gryphons Are Awesome! Gryphons Are Awesome!
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At NewsGator and Sepia Labs I worked with Brian Reischl, one of the server-side guys. Among other things, he worked on NewsGator’s RSS content service, which reads n million feeds once an hour. (I don’t know if I can say what n is. It surprised me when I heard it. The system is still running, by the way.) Brian is intimately acquainted with the different ways feeds can be screwed up. So he posted Stupid Feed Tricks on Google Docs. I quote the entire thing below for people like me who don’t have Google accounts. 48 things you should never do to an RSS feed.
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I just checked the requirements for their SDK. ONLY runs on Windows 8, not even Windows 7. What a load of crap.
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W7 doesn't have the metro APIs needed to run W8 apps...
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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It's all right, you aren't eligible for the money anyway. Limited to US only.
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Also worth noting that the offer is for US residents only, so for most of the world this isn't even valid.
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Of course I think all these apps are just fads. I have read where people only use a few. Guess it is a good way to get money for Microsoft. I just can understand all the excitement about these apps when you can probably get any functionality you want as a web application, which quite often is free, and takes very little space since all you have to do is save the URI.
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I bet they are hoping that someone writes a decent mail client for W8.
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No thanks, after the way they pulled Silverlight and loads of other stuff, I'm gonna wait at least 5 years to see if they are sticking with something for a change.
Wout
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All this is very reminiscent of XNA games. gamingcentrum.com/tag/xna/
If through some fluke becomes established. Will they then slap a fee on your app? or worse.
"All your app belong to us."
"It's true that hard work never killed anyone. But I figure, why take the chance." - Ronald Reagan
That's what machines are for.
Got a problem?
Sleep on it.
modified 20-Mar-13 8:22am.
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Well, maybe 70%-80%, but I don't want to and I don't have to, so I am not gonna bother with it. Plus, Silverlight was not great, so I don't have a reason to believe that WinPhone 8 will be great. It had potential, but MS never bothered finishing it properly (e.g. half baked 3D support, on Windows only, and no software rendering fallback). So my current view is that they are just rushing from one thing to another without delivering something stable and usable. No thank you Microsoft. XNA, Managed DirectX, WPF, Win Forms (was very good for productity, they should have just made that better), .NET Remoting (very good, and easy to use), the list is endless really.
Wout
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