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6-year-old: It’s okay. It’s squished.
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From the InfuriousComics web site: By now, you might have heard that Murderdrome has been banned by Apple. This is due to the part of the sdk that suggests content must NOT offend anyone in ‘apple’s reasonable’ opinion. Here at infurious, we would love to work with Apple to ensure a content rating system can … Continue reading “Murderdrome BANNED by Apple”
From the InfuriousComics web site:
By now, you might have heard that Murderdrome has been banned by Apple. This is due to the part of the sdk that suggests content must NOT offend anyone in ‘apple’s reasonable’ opinion. Here at infurious, we would love to work with Apple to ensure a content rating system can be put in place to allow material that is no more offensive than many of the R rated films available to download on iTunes.
As a result, PJ has put all of the frames of MURDERDROME on the Infurious web site so people can get a chance to read it. Now, hark back to the post I made a few days ago of films without ratings on the iTunes Movie Store.
It’s also been covered on the “Lying in the Gutters” blog by Rich Johnston (the most popular and longest running comics column on the internet):
A remarkable plan.
Slightly scuppered by Apple telling the creators that “Murderdrome cannot be posted to the App Store because it contains content that does not comply with Community Standards” and “Applications must not contain any obscene, pornographic, offensive or defamatory content or materials of any kind (text, graphics, images, photographs, etc.), or other content or materials that in Apple’s reasonable judgement may be found objectionable by iPhone or iPod touch users.”
Please give your opinion on the InfuriousComics web site.
I think it’s a shame that it has to come to this but it’s notable that there is no content guideline for applications on the App Store. For “Games” there is a guideline for suitability that is used by some and not all and, as we have seen, Apple is inconsistent in the use of the ratings system for their film content. How many books on there might be said to have explicit content – would you consider Candide (with it’s religious, political and intellectual views), or Dracula (with it’s Victorian examination of sexuality) or Tales of Terror and Mystery by Arthur Conan Doyle (It’s horror!) – don’t you think these are as effective as the visualisations possible through comic art?
Might be useful to note that AMERICAN PSYCHO is available WITH A PREVIEW, without a rating. Is it that writing (or the spoken word of writing) is less effective? Less able to rile the emotions?
Wednesday afternoon I popped round to Paul’s house for a quick chat (and a couple of headache tablets) and I saw a demo of MurderDrome, the first iteration of a new comic application for the iPhone. There have been a few comic reader apps for the iPhone/iPod touch out there, most notably ClickWheel Comic Reader … Continue reading “Comics.”
Wednesday afternoon I popped round to Paul’s house for a quick chat (and a couple of headache tablets) and I saw a demo of MurderDrome, the first iteration of a new comic application for the iPhone.
There have been a few comic reader apps for the iPhone/iPod touch out there, most notably ClickWheel Comic Reader which gives access to a lot of content produced for 2000AD.
The Murderdrome iPhone comic demoed to me that day had a few very startling and fresh ideas.
The content was perfectly sized for the high res (160 dpi) screen of the iPod touch and iPhone. The side-side swipe of the finger moved from page to page but the UP-DOWN swipe of a finger took you through the content on that page. It removed colour, then inking, then brought the images down to the base wireframe. You could see the process on how it was made. You can, at a touch, remove or re-add speech bubbles and there are other settings (greyscale etc) which I didn’t have time to play with.
Paul (art, letters, colour) and Al (writer) have collaborated to make Murderdrome specially for the iPhone/iPod touch screen. The code was written by Philip Orr who you’ll also recognise as one of the names behind infurious. Watch Phil’s Blue Pilot for some very interesting developments soon.
See the Youtube video for more
Paul has some entertaining ideas on how this is going to work into a business model on the iPhone and iPod touch but you’ll definitely find some information on that on Paul’s blog, “Notes from the Drawing Board“.
When you see some of the demos available out there, it’s easy to see why so many people get excited by technology. Look at Jeff Han’s Multitouch Demos. Or what Johnny Lee has been doing with Wii Remotes. My favourite has to be this, however. The reaction of a robot sentry. The creator intends to … Continue reading “Get into Tech?”
When you see some of the demos available out there, it’s easy to see why so many people get excited by technology. Look at Jeff Han’s Multitouch Demos. Or what Johnny Lee has been doing with Wii Remotes.
My favourite has to be this, however. The reaction of a robot sentry.
The creator intends to sell them.
There’s a lot of initiatives to get people in schools to get into technology and science as a career as numbers for these disciplines aren’t what the gubmint thinks they need to be. This is why Momentum (my new employer) is running a series of open days for ICT in QUB, UUJ, UUM and UUC in September and why I think it would be great to have some local tech gurus to attend and help explain to schoolkids why they love working in the tech field.
I’ve done about half a dozen of these demo days over the years (long before the whole Digital Circle thing came up) and thoroughly enjoyed them. If you’re interested in contributing and spending a bit of time explaining why tech is a good career choice, then please get in touch. Obviously it helps if you’re IN Northern Ireland, duh!
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Disturbing: Recently this customer ordered my software and started to use it. But after a few days later he ask me for a refund because he say my software doesn’t do some things he wanted. I told him i dont do refunds after 10 day, but he did a chargeback so im force to pay … Continue reading “Rewenge!”
Recently this customer ordered my software and started to use it. But after a few days later he ask me for a refund because he say my software doesn’t do some things he wanted. I told him i dont do refunds after 10 day, but he did a chargeback so im force to pay him back.
My question is how can i punish him for this. Im thinking about building new module in my software, so next time if someone buys it then wants to do refund/chargeback, it formats the customer hard disk.
The comments, on the other hand, range from the sensible to the hilarious. The Original Poster continues:
thanks for every great ideas anyone. there are many idea here that i like, but best one is i think the using customer webcam to take picture and using it to black mail them. This is better than formatting but it will still punish them ;).
Ps im not in the US so im not scared from law 😉
I’m speechless.
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We’re just pulling in to Harwich which means we have a few more hours on the road before we’re home. We disembark at 8 or so and aim for the HSS at 7 or so from Stranraer. We should be home by 10. This has been an amazing trip, bobbing between two extremes – incredibly … Continue reading “The Last Leg”
We’re just pulling in to Harwich which means we have a few more hours on the road before we’re home.
We disembark at 8 or so and aim for the HSS at 7 or so from Stranraer. We should be home by 10.
This has been an amazing trip, bobbing between two extremes – incredibly relaxing on one hand and interesting and inspiring on the other. I’ll write more about it when I’m home, relaxed and using my laptop.
Talk to you all soon.
