Altman said there had been âa brutal crunchâ all year due to supply shortages of Nvidiaâs $40,000-a-piece chips. He said his company had received H100s, and was expecting more soon, adding that ânext year looks already like itâs going to be better.â
However, as other players such as Google, Microsoft, AMD and Intel prepare to release rival AI chips,... See more
Sony earns a cut of the sales of third-party games on PlayStation, which of course it gets to keep with first-party games â meaning that its own games can justify very large budgets more easily, as they generate more revenue per unit sold. A further justification for taking this kind of risk on high development costs is that the games themselves... See more
Simple. You provide something nobody else can ever provide. Something cool and distinctive that people will rather pay money for your game than get someone else's for free.
Consider me. I'm an OK programmer. I'm not good at art and visual stuff, and I haven't been since I was a kid.
But I can write well. I make good settings... See more
"If only we had more { money | time | authority | technology }, we could get everything done."
But there's a paradox here: it's never actually been true.
All great achievements happen while yoked by constraints. Even the biggest budget, high-stakes government programs (the Manhattan Project, Apollo Program) were heavily constrained.
"Why make the player watch something when they can do it? If possible, we shouldn't rely on narrative bookending to tell the bulk of the narrative," Wasselin said. "Avoid exposition cutscenes, and tie narrative to interaction whenever possible. Even a small interaction is better than none, and when that isn't possible find tricks to make the player... See more
On its surface, the iPhone didnât have totally new killer apps when it launched. It had a mail client, a music player, a web browser, YouTube, etc. The multitouch paradigm didnât substantively transform what you could do with those apps; it was important because it made those apps possible on the tiny display. The first iPhone was important not... See more
The KIM approach starts with an extensive analysis of traffic flows and bottlenecks. At the intersection of Vrijheidslaan â Amsteldijk it turned that the bicycle flows to and from Berlagebrug turned out to be the largest. And even the busiest in Amsterdam with 24,000 cyclists per day. Especially during morning rush hour, there was far too little... See more