Why wouldn't she count? Cause she's a mom? Cause the game has candy? Or what?
As for female assassins, truth is somewhere in the middle. You don't need to make everything from scratch. Procedural adjustments can be made to the male animations and you can use the same animations for females.
I mean come on, women have a slightly different figure, but they have two legs, two arms, one head and so on. They're humans. It's not like the complaint is that birds and dogs were left out of the game.
That said, I'm fine with women being left out being a business decision. They'll now see what the effects of that business decision is on sales, and have the chance to learn for the next version.
Autism isn't just a "bad brain" condition that needs a "make brain better" game. Unfortunately it's a very specific condition with very specific needs.
Calling Lumosity bullshit due to some expectation towards it that it doesn't make is akin to calling vitamin tablets bullshit because they don't cure diabetes.
Does Lumosity make any claims about improving autism conditions? It's a pretty big leap of logic to believe that a generic brain game system should improve autism range conditions.
And yet, I wouldn't have opened yet another article on gamer sexism (I get it, gamer sexism is bad mkay?), but I did find the data point of half the gamers being female very compelling (and useful to mention during meetings).
I feel they almost got the reason right, but not quite.
We're used to hearing media stories about other people's success stories coming up with exotic, creative ideas.
If we're hearing someone else's story, therefore, we're biased to assume it's a success story.
Why would we be hearing for some concept that has come from far away, unless it was a success? If it was a pedestrian failure, we wouldn't hear about it.
While when we work with familiar matter, we kick into a different gear, we rely on experience (and experience often goes against innovative ideas) and we rely on our own skills to decide of an idea is a winner or not.
It's sharded, dude. You may want (typically) 3, 5 or 7 machines per shard for redundancy and failover, but there's no limit on the number of shards you may want to have.
For anyone paying attention, the SDK has been specifically modified to allow for:
1) Smaller satellite devices for iPhone (iWatch? I don't know, but something like it. Look for it in the Continuity & notification widget APIs).
2) More varied size devices (higher resolution iPhone? Look for it in the Xcode size "traits" APIs).
3) A hint that Macs may move to ARM in the next couple of years (look for it in the way they're rolling out new graphics APIs like Metal).
4) Apple TV may be getting native apps connected to your iPhone/iPad apps (look for it in the new Extensions APIs).
While none of the above are hard promises about where Apple's going, they pretty much have no choice than spill this out in the open, as they need to release the SDK and prepare devs for the changes at least some time ahead.
It seems their new strategy is to release software/SDK updates in preparation for new hardware in June during WWDC, then we have a few months padding until developers get their air back, and... starting August/September the new hardware starts coming, just in time for school, and just in time for the winter holiday season.
I actually did read it. And I'm responding to the idea that "see, you complained, and Google changed it, so your former complaints are now misunderstandings" is really not a valid thesis.
Kudos for the effort and so on, but the thing I can't understand is, who would use these backgrounds, unless they specifically want their site to look like their grandmother's house.
It's 2014. By now we've realized it's counter-productive to stamp your background with pictures and patterns, because they distract from your site's content, and make it harder to read.
Don't have content? The solution isn't funky backgrounds. It's: have content, or don't have a site.
Who is assuming that "system is against me" victim position you're talking about? I don't see it.
People do what they can in their position. Spontaneous organization leading to system change happens, but it's spontaneous.
Maybe you're imagining some kind of movie montage set to 80s bad disco music, where a guy Decides to Make a Movement, and a movement gets assembled and in the end we get a wide shot with hundreds of thousands of people doing system changy thingies, but reality usually doesn't work this way.
You can't just decide this, especially if you're a ~60 years old network engineer. Deciding to build a life abroad at that age is also quite unlikely.
There are entire countries where the modus operandi is finding a position of some power, then finding a way to cheat there so you can get something for yourself. Corruption is a measure of success.
Knowing the loopholes and exploiting them means you're the smart one among a sea of clueless idiots. People get "secret" respect for being corrupted. Former Soviet block countries are one example of this mentality.
There's a reason certain countries can't make quick progress, while others can. Culture is the operating system of the mind, it affects how we perceive the world, how we make decisions, and ultimately where we're dragging the entire society with us.
Missing features weren't Microsoft's problem with Windows Phone. You can't ship from day one with all the features whether you lead or follow.
Waiting until everything is there is a recipe for burning out your team and shipping 4 years later, with zero apps in your app store.
No, the problem is there's simply no compelling reason to own a Windows Phone.
iPhone integrates with Windows just fine. It's popular and feels "safe" because there's safety in numbers, and it has all the apps.
Android is doing well, too.
Microsoft had the chance to ship a phone that integrates better with Windows than any third party phone OS could, but they didn't figure out anything interesting to do with, and just shipped a normal smartphone with a trendy UI on it.
Look at Apple and "Coherence" now. This is the kind of shit Windows Phone should've provided for Windows computers. Instead their roadmap speaks about unifying kernels and what not. Nobody cares about your unified kernels, Microsoft. Ship features that bring visible value to users.
Why wouldn't she count? Cause she's a mom? Cause the game has candy? Or what?
As for female assassins, truth is somewhere in the middle. You don't need to make everything from scratch. Procedural adjustments can be made to the male animations and you can use the same animations for females.
I mean come on, women have a slightly different figure, but they have two legs, two arms, one head and so on. They're humans. It's not like the complaint is that birds and dogs were left out of the game.
That said, I'm fine with women being left out being a business decision. They'll now see what the effects of that business decision is on sales, and have the chance to learn for the next version.