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EA and NVIDIA in Alliance
Deepak Jois writes "Arstechnica is reporting that EA and NVIDIA have entered into a pact to promote each other. Among other things it also means EA will support games on all PC platforms featuring NVIDIA hardware. Also check this link to the press release."
EA is, no doubt, the leader in the computer games industry. NVidia is into a head 2 head fight with ATI ( ATI is probably going to come out as the winner ), and such a deal will add points in its favor in this 'fight'. Imagine a series of games to comes with a 'NVidia' recommented stamp on the cover.
Technology ramblings : Simple is Beautiful
Read this this-morning on CNet avantgo...
... pfft.. yeah, the cards are good, but honestly!
Anyone remember those 3dfx emblazened boxes about 5 years ago? First they get they're own graphics language (reminds me of Glide), and now they start working with companies to program for the chips they make?? For some reason I think Nvidia is being just a BIT too influenced from 3dfx.. it's like they're repeating all the mistakes!
"Nvidia: The way it's meant to be played"
..It impresses me how quickly the davids of the past become the goliaths of the present..Seems like a trend with geekdom, cause, at least in part to the merciless social beatings we got while growing up for being the way we are..Microsoft Vs. Ibm...3dfx Vs. Nvidia and now Nvidia vs. everyone else. One can only hope one day, if and when Linux truly becomes a dominant desktop operating system, that someone has the perception to learn from the past and not doom us to repeat it.
I'd hardly consider Medal of Honor, Battlefield 1942, SimCity 4, C&C Generals to be filled with dumb features, gimmicks and FMV.
I know that The Sims is the root of all evil, but EA do publish some very high quality games.
I allways found that kind of alliances creepy. This kind of thing never promotes value. The end of all this will be that all EA games will work verry bad with ATI boards and non EA games will be less competitive on Nvidia. Finally the end user will end up screwed.
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Not like this every happened with...
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Sony
Nintendo
Philips
Sega
Atari
EA
Akkla
3dfx
id Software
I could go on, but I don't feel like searching Google right now.
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
Ha. Gripe to the human-interface people who get up on their soapbox and beat their drums to the tune of "nobody wants to see that debugging junk, its enough to know their program crashed. It shouldn't have crashed in the first place, so its the programmers fault that it happened."
So, the suits fall for the UI argument, and, then, follow-up by not increasing funding so the programmers can't write robust code. This makes me question whether EA would ever be a good place to work as a programmer.
To anyone who says, "programmers should write robust code by default", I say, "get a real job." To anyone who says "use Lisp or Python (or whatever) and all your woes magically disappear", I say, "no programming language yet invented fundamentally reduces the complexity of programming, even Lisp can break when lists take on nil values unexpectedly--you just don't get a core dump from it".
Healthcare article at Kuro5hin