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I can refute that directly. My wife uses Pinterest to learn about recipes, craft projects for her and our kids, cleaning tips. Sharing this information with your community is the definition of culture.
Social media is a huge value to a transplant family living in a far off city from their family all so the husband can work in his chosen field.
Perhaps a drag gesture across an area can work as a hover? Probably won't work great if context stuff pops up directly under your finger.
Better/crazier plan: the new iPhone has a user-facing camera. How hard is it to get some eye-tracking software going?
I wouldn't underestimate the expertise of regular people living with a disease. Parents of sick kids, especially.
I'm all for defensive programming, but when you need to be fast, you'll just have to make sure it's correct.
Seeing memset is usually a sign that someone is being lazy about watching the length of their buffers and/or verifying their copies aren't off-by-one.
Just because courts have ruled that the ticket coming on a disk means you can resell the disk, doesn't mean EA has no right to find a way to tear the ticket.
It's unfortunate the courts have ruled against this when the delivery medium (the disk) is sold on a store shelf. It's like making a movie theater let patrons resell their tickets to be used for a later show.
I expect the eventual result is that everyone will move their content online. See the rise of Steam, XBLA, and soon services like OnLive.
Trying to get paid for your product when someone uses it isn't any more of a "cash grab" than any other company selling any other product for money. In other industries when a maker sees no share of the sale of his work, we usually find a way to call what happened to him what it is: theft.
If EULAs were enforced, the situation would be different since the "non transferable license" would maybe kill the commercial used games market.
Probably not the best aide for /improving/ at public speaking, though.
Her stats superstitions drive me crazy. Ever heard of the Chinese birth calendar? For example: http://www.webwomb.com/chinesechart.htm.
90%+ accuracy should be an easy claim to bust. Unfortunately for me it's been right for our kids 2 out of 2 times. Why are stats always so hard to sell over anecdotal experience?
If I remember right, the movie scientists were mainly concerned about how the critters would get enough air.
http://www.saburchill.com/chapters/chap0021.html
Natural history suggests the same, long before us when the air was a lot more oxygen rich, bugs were a lot bigger!
Fuel cells are cool because they grab electricity straight from the freed electrons as the fuel is oxidized. More efficient than using the heat to make steam to power a turbine to spin electromagnets, your typical power plant.
Heresy, I know, but reading is about shape recognition, which is more difficult in mono-spaced fonts.
-MMOs fail due to bad management, design
Partially true. All the elements need to be there, and bad technology seems to be the biggest crippling force in games. We need more good hackers in the field.
-Good MMO studios aren't hiring.
Not true, even today.
-MMO studios all have terrible quality of life, pay, benefits.
Not true. Startup studios might, but if you're going into that situation you're either getting profit sharing, or a beginner getting a foot in the door.
-MMO engines don't exist, tech isn't reused.
This is becoming less true, but the third party tech out there is still untested. It's unlikely a great MMO company will sell its tech like Epic does with Unreal, since we need long term customers, and can't afford to undercut ourselves.
-Don't work in games unless you are a gaming fanatic.
Loving gameplay helps if you want to be a gameplay coder, but MMOs are vast. Networking, graphics, AI, scalability, the problems to be solved are endless. If you're bored at your job, I recommend giving the games industry a look.