Tag: pc

Good night and good luck, Walt Mossberg

Walt Mossberg’s final weekly column. He started out in 1991 with “computers are just too hard to use”, and ends with the dangers of ambient computing and its power resting in a few companies: …if we are really going to turn over our homes, our cars, our health and more to private tech companies, on a scale never imagined, we need much, much stronger standards for security and privacy than now exist. Especially in the U.S., it’s time to stop dancing around the privacy and security issues and pass real, binding laws. But, as tectonic shifts like this occur in technology,

The economics of more new games, but no new gamers

Jeff Vogel boils down the indie gaming debate (on PC) to a simple equation: X dollars, Y developers. That’s all that matters. And if X stays constant, the only way to solve the problem is for Y to go down. I’ll give you a second to work out the consequences of that for yourself. He’s done a wonderful piece on the whole ecosystem, but it does come down to more new games, no new gamers.

Writing About Considering Everything

I’ve started to do some writing over on the Blogger Advocacy section of Creative Choices, a website set up to “[help] individuals takie control of their own career decisions [by making sure] they are well informed and supported in their desire to succeed. My first post is about browser and computing compatibility online: In extreme circumstances, where a website doesn’t load correctly, you might have people skipping over your site purely because it doesn’t work 100% perfectly in their web browser, even if the information they’re looking for is in front of them.. Woe betide you if you pop up