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871.
by pfisch 14y ago
Is this worth making the whole game run slower all the time for everyone? That is what you are talking about here.
872.
by pfisch 14y ago
No I am just being realistic as an actual game developer. This is not a conceptual discussion. It doesn't make any sense to implement this change because if your fixed timestep for the physics system is breaking down then gravity not calc
873.
by pfisch 14y ago
Do people pay for things like this? Seems like you could just google some free examples or just look at stack overflow.
874.
by pfisch 14y ago
If the game is so bogged down that the fixed timestep cycle is slowing down the game is broken for so many other reasons. Objects will start tunneling through other objects.
875.
by pfisch 14y ago
All games have minimum requirements.
876.
by pfisch 14y ago
Does sims 3 even have gravity?
877.
by pfisch 14y ago
You're also using floats to store the values. This seems silly and looks like it will be slightly slower to calculate. Unless your game is running like garbage this will not matter. You are talking about a dt of something like 1/30 or 1/6
878.
by pfisch 14y ago
Why does this even matter? If you have a large delta time then your game is fucked anyway. Collision detection will likely also be broken and the game is unplayably choppy anyway so it doesn't even matter.
879.
by pfisch 14y ago
The search is garbage but overall windows explorer is miles ahead of finder. You pretty much need to use a 3rd party explorer on a mac.
880.
by pfisch 14y ago
If this is making local copies and syncing them like dropbox it could maybe be awesome but is likely read only. If it doesn't work like that then it will be terrible and constantly be loading, imagine trying to open a big image collection
881.
by pfisch 14y ago
I would kickstart it coming to my city. I think a lot of people would.
882.
by pfisch 14y ago
So....we shouldn't have animal and human trials of drugs before bringing them to market? Those are incredibly expensive regulations that I guess we could remove. Do you realize how many years it takes to bring a drug to market, and the ki
883.
by pfisch 14y ago
You know what, you are right. I think the only reason I felt that way was because of how they told us what they were doing. Like they were doing us some kind of favor instead of the exact opposite.
884.
by pfisch 14y ago
mtgx is coming from a fantasy/idealistic world position and tptacek is coming from a position entrenched in reality. I mean look at what mtgx said: "Now. Why is the first point about the size of the industry relevant? Unless you're talking
885.
by pfisch 14y ago
I absolutely agree with this. If they are going to dick us over I can understand that because they were offering us something free that costs money to run, but just be straight with us. I don't think the google apps business customers are
886.
by pfisch 14y ago
What are you trying to say here exactly? We shouldn't have privately funded drug research? Yes, capitalism has some bad side effects. That is not a reason to throw out the baby with the bath water.
887.
by pfisch 14y ago
Do you realize how much it costs to take a drug from the lab to the market? If there were no IP laws virtually all private drug development would stop. You have black and white beliefs in a grey world.
888.
by pfisch 14y ago
Honestly what a lot of the hip startup people with the blogs in silicon valley do scares the hell out of me as well, and I guess that is a lot of Y combinator. I worked as a developer for awhile so I have some money, and now I am bootstrapp
889.
by pfisch 14y ago
It is worth your while to learn OOP if you haven't and at least some of the technical stuff. I am a lot like you, engineering background as well. However, if you try to just freestyle even a medium sized project without any knowledge it wi
890.
by pfisch 14y ago
Can you explain what you're talking about? I run a small business and my understanding is that unless you have like 50+ employees this insurance stuff doesn't even effect you. Honestly though if it is a business killer(which you know, I do
891.
by pfisch 14y ago
They should call this the THQ bankruptcy bundle
892.
by pfisch 14y ago
Most of the other projects have been posting updates so they definitely are working on the products. Unless those devs are really in dire straits it would be kind of silly for them to abandon the games. They already have so much time put i
893.
by pfisch 14y ago
That is not true. Mac OS absolutely has the ability to do this, but it has to be done on the command line because the gui is shallow. Sometimes I would like to disable the monitor to improve performance, sometimes I just don't want windows
894.
by pfisch 14y ago
Wouldn't it be better if you instead knew a good bit of c++/obj-c, c#/java, php, matlab, python, etc. It's just like investing, you are putting all your eggs in one basket. I don't think Ruby's future is especially in trouble, but it is ce
895.
by pfisch 14y ago
Honestly, that sucks and is really unacceptable. We are talking about significantly changing the size of buttons/text between these two tablets. You should be able to design for both.
896.
by pfisch 14y ago
Why do I need to eject at all though?
897.
by pfisch 14y ago
Unplugging the monitor/closing the lid is the most ridiculous solution I have ever heard. Maybe I want to use the laptop keyboard, or the trackpad. This isn't even theoretical, I actually want to do this all the time. What if I have a bun
898.
by pfisch 14y ago
"This is complete rubbish. Common sense suggests that if it gave wildly different output then nobody would be using it. But yet everybody does. And likewise if each iPhone executed code differently people would be buying up old iPhones in d
899.
by pfisch 14y ago
How do you disable a monitor then? I have found the display options. As far as I am aware you have to use the console to disable a monitor and you have to give it a bunch of crazy commands. Some of the navigating between open programs stuf
900.
by pfisch 14y ago
I have always used macs in passing, but in the past year I have really been using OSX a lot and from what I have used I get the impression that Apple never catered to developers or else their whole gui system would be very different. Has OS

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