The word "sandbox" is correct and usable in written English.
It is mainly used to refer to a box or pit filled with sand, which is commonly associated with children's play. Example sentence: My daughter loves to play in the sandbox and build sand castles.
And even after we stop making Triceratops and Stegosaurus battle each other in the schoolyard sandbox, we still love our dinosaurs.
But in sandbox games, the world hasn't changed and the protagonist is still there.
Minecraft is a perfect match for us, providing an amazing sandbox for kids to take our characters, tell their own stories, prank their friends and build out Beanotown," said DC Thomson's Mark Cotton.
("When you're welcomed into the Marvel family, it's pretty much a classified situation all the way around; you have to sign a million NDAs, you have to give blood, you have to give your grandmother's urine…") They're characteristically reluctant to give away any details about characters they're going to be pulling out of the Marvel sandbox.
Now, I would flat out refuse to play a game where you could do that, regardless of whether it was forced on me by the storyline, or merely an option in sandbox play.
Such links are crucial for success in manufacturing, says Hamid Mughal, Rolls-Royce's director of manufacturing, as they create a "sandbox" environment, allowing experimentation that would never be viable for a single firm.Some companies are confident that the productivity gains will continue.
The browser kernel, which interacts directly with the operating system, is therefore shielded from anything questionable lurking on the web.Meanwhile, the rendering engine resides in a "sandbox" that strictly controls what resources can be read or written to.
A game or word processor might need no resources beyond those in Apple's sandbox, but nearly all networked and professional software requires more than that.Developers can apply for standard exemptions to the rules, which Apple calls "entitlements".
He has to stop himself in mid-interview from veering off on a wild tangent about the complexities of the "Java sandbox".
In practice, Trojan horses and other nasty bits of malware can leak across from the sandbox to a supposedly protected computer.
If it doesn't grant one, the developer's work will have gone to waste.It's Apple sandbox, says Craig Hockenberry, a boss of Iconfactory, which has been developing Mac apps for years, and the company can do what it likes.
