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DOOM 3DO Source Released On Github
New submitter burgerbecky writes The port that was as hellish as the game world itself, DOOM for the 3DO's source code has been released on github. The original programmer outlined the corners cut and why.
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While this code is historically important, and its release is excellent news, I would like to see larger companies like IBM and HP release code to old versions of useful or widely used products.
I would love it if HP would release the source code to older versions of HP-UX, Tru64 UNIX, and older Digital software.
I would also love it if IBM would release the source code to older versions of AIX, DB2, Informix, the Lotus products, and so on and so forth.
This source code would be great to have available due to its historical significance, because it was the software powering some of the most critical business systems in the world.
all the domains in that thread are gone. does that guy even exist anymore?
In case people are missing it:
In the book "Masters of Doom" about the formation and early years of Id Software, there was a character mentioned called Burger Bill, who had a penchant for nibbling on an old cheeseburger he kept in his desk draw.
I remember reading in the comments on a story here years ago that Burger Bill was now Burger Becky, who it seems is the person who did this port.
IMO the reason unions are anti-worker is because unions work in the best interest of the union management. Take for exapmle the whole mess with Hostess where the union bosses called it a success because the workers stood their ground, even though their members were all jobless after that (but the union bosses still retained their higher paying jobs...)
Unions are also anti-worker because most of the ones that exist today started via mafia style tactics (threatening workers who didn't join the union and pay dues with violence, in addition to threatening business owners with violence.)
Yes, pushing for higher wages is part of their motivation, but that's only because the higher your wages, the more dues they collect from you. They don't give a shit if you're a bad employee, just so long as you're a dues paying member.
Oh and who remembers the Obamacare provision that permitted union management to keep "Cadillac" health insurance plans while nobody else was allowed to?
When the people with 99% of the money dictate
And you accuse me of dogma... trigger warning people!
The Hostess example the other guy posted shows clearly enough the same thing applies when unions are in the public sector.
It's not being inherently anti-union, it's understanding human nature. Unions are simply another kind of company that over time uses workers to maximize union income. Note I did not say union worker income... that may be a side benefit, though usually a short-lived one.
Everyone wants to make more money. Unions are the only way for the workers to push back
That is not at all true. You can either ask for a raise, or find somewhere else to work for more money.
Programmers (and I include myself here) traditionally find it difficult to ask for more money, even though it can be very effective. But they don't find it very difficult at all to look for work, because there is usually a good range of choice as to where a programmer can work. So programmers have not really needed unions because getting more money is easily done, if desired...
Which brings up another point; programmer pay is high enough usually that a union giving them more pay is seen as kind of pointless, when most feel like they make a good living already. Base pay for programming is high enough that salary is usually a secondary concern to other factors.
Take your anti-union rhetoric and toss it back to Fox News where it belongs.
I haven't watched Fox News pretty much ever; take your blindly applied stereotypes and your squawking parroting of talking points and bat them around the little bubble of unreality you live in.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
and continue to get made well in Germany with Union Labor. Also, I'm fed up with the guys putting parts on at the assembly line getting blamed for for shitty American Cars. They just tightened the bolts people.
My father worked for GM and was in the UAW. It never stopped him from telling us how bad his coworkers and fellow union members were. Stupid and lazy people are not excluded from union membership.
One of my teachers in high school also had UAW experience. One story I remember was of the spot welders that were supposed to make a dozen precise welds as the frame moved down the assembly line. Some days the workers just didn't care, and made eight welds that were near where they were supposed to be. Those cars would rattle from the missing and misplaced welds. Also, he mentioned the senior union members who came in late, left for lunch early, and never returned. Or worse, returned from lunch drunker than they were earlier.
So, for all the good than someone can point out in unions' favor, there are just as many examples of how they eventually fail. As another post points out, it is more the character of the worker than his membership in a union that determines the quality of his work.
If you think I voted for Trump because of this post, you're wrong. I voted for Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party. Again.