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Game development 'hampered by IP'
News According to Jon Hare, widely regarded as one of the godfathers of gaming for work on such titles as Sensible Software, Cannon Fodder, Wizball Wizard and Mega lo Mania during his time running Sensible Software, the single biggest obstacle in game...
[August 29, 2002, 9:03]
Lord Stern: Downturn won't affect climate change efforts
Blog Stern's speech at software conference came on the same day that he published a set of proposals for a global deal on climate change at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Stern's 2050 forecast refers to a time-line he presented...
[April 30, 2008, 16:52]
Sensible Soccer '98 demo
Downloads Many soccer games can be difficult to play on a PC, so Sensible Software has attempted, by concentrating on playability, to create a soccer game that you can play on your PC while maintaining a strong sense of realism.
[July 3, 1998, 5:09]
Body Shop to Mind Shop: Businesses Look for More From Third Party Consultants
White Papers The options for companies looking to outsource some or all of their IT needs have increased as suppliers look for innovative ways to offer software products such as Software as a Service (SaaS) or on-demand and hosted IT offerings.
[August 1, 2009, 1:21]
AdminGtoolBasic
Downloads Within a company, the assistant can be used to give IT-managers an exact overview of the existing hard- and software structure and to make a thorough controlling possible (e.g.work time, travel times, costs).
[February 1, 2006, 7:00]
AdminGtoolPro
Downloads Its network-compatibility makes simultaneous usage by many system technicians possible overFilemaker Network or WebBrowser.For each Customer, the assistant can be used to give IT - managers an exact overview of the existing hard- and software...
[January 30, 2006, 7:00]
OLPC meltdown - or, the side-effects of working closely with Nickneg.
Blog This one is a classic of the genre and, true to the spirit of sensible software development, contains much that has been and will be extensively reusable - such as the phrase "The project was a spectacular flop due to mismanagement and...
[May 14, 2008, 10:46]
Game developers look east for inspiration
News Jon Hare, who created on such titles as Cannon Fodder, Wizball Wizard and Mega lo Mania during his time running Sensible Software, said the Western games industry is facing a crisis: as the industry has become more commercial, games have become...
[August 30, 2002, 12:15]
Virtual Iron extends virtualisation options
News Focusing on management is sensible, given that there already are virtualisation software choices from leader VMware as well as Microsoft and Xen, said Illuminata analyst Gordon Haff. Virtual Iron, a start-up whose software lets programs run on a...
[August 8, 2005, 10:00]
Microsoft and Brother sign patent-sharing deal
News This 'mixed source' world calls for sensible business arrangements between IT leaders to enable the use of software resulting from various development and business models. Microsoft and the printer manufacturer Brother have signed a cross-licensing...
[February 6, 2009, 12:28]
When support becomes sabotage
Leader The operating system - as well as free and open source software in general - has an enormous body of adherents; it wouldn't have survived, let alone prospered, otherwise. It lends considerable ammunition to the other side, who can point to examples...
[April 7, 2005, 15:35]
Expert: CPS hack tool guidance 'confused'
News The Computer Misuse Act (CMA) amendments criminalise the production, distribution and use of software for malicious attack. The problem as Clayton sees it is that many software tools, such as network vulnerability scanning tools, are dual-use, or...
[January 3, 2008, 16:51]
Genivi shows why open source is good for business
Blog It's actually a good example of why open source is good for business, even outside the software industry itself. The auto companies aren't in the business of producing software, in much the same way they aren't in the business of producing tyres.
[March 6, 2009, 11:53]
Linux kernel maintainer joins patent celebrations
News The European Parliament is taking account of the huge public concern about this directive and has shown that the Council's attempt to force through an uncompromising pro-software-patent directive is not the way to reach a sensible consensus in...
[February 3, 2005, 15:55]
Oracle fails to face the future
Leader By imposing a huge tax on the only sensible path for hardware innovation, software companies will either freeze the market or drive users to open-source software -- whose licence model is utterly agnostic about hardware configurations.
[December 9, 2004, 11:40]
A bad workman blames his (open source) tools
Blog The problem with open source software application development (if there is one) you might argue is that there are so many comparatively ‘ungraded’ tools out there that you can find yourself using a product that is not necessarily best suited to...
[December 13, 2009, 23:50]
Minimal impact of Palm Trojan hides future danger
News This Trojan horse is a very low threat to Palm users who are sensible enough to avoid warez mailing lists and do not download pirated software," he says. It has always been possible to write malicious software for the Palm operating system," he...
[August 30, 2000, 14:37]
The little things that make virtual computing such fun...
Blog That went well - ah, the delights of seeing software rampage in over the net at 12Mbps - and all was well. People who write software that pops up long error messages with hexadecimal in should be hung, drawn and quartered -- if they don't let you...
[August 6, 2008, 9:48]
UK Patent Office considers problem of trivial patents
Talkback If on the other hand, the 'best way' is cheap or simple to invent, which is the case with most software concepts (note 'concepts' not products - a product does take a long time and hence is expensive to develop, but most of the work is not...
[February 9, 2006, 9:36]
Samsung X20 HVM 740 review
Reviews The touchpad has an extra button that sits between the left and right mouse buttons; this toggles the touchpad on and off - you may want to turn the touchpad off when using an external mouse, and this is much more convenient than doing so via...
[June 16, 2005, 16:45]
