...believes that ignoring a problem will make it go away.
Seriously, not airing episodes of a satiric cartoon is in no way related to solving any problems that nuclear power may or may not have. It seems like a very pointless exercise to me...
Yes, because the world needs more segmentation faults. And BTW I have been forced many times to use C++ in my work. I know a shitload about it, especially the various tricks about the template system; the removal of concepts from the standard proves that C++ is, has always been, and will always been a mismatched bunch of tricks held together with duct tape.
Of course you are entitled to your opinion; I know many great programs/programmers exclusively made/working with C++, so I am not implying that the language forces bad programs or diseducates developers. Unfortunately I believe that the absence of a clean idiomatic C++, the proliferation of more or less incompatible coding styles, the confusing compatibility with C (C++ is often used as "C with classes") and the excessively small standard library (I believe that anything found in Boost should never be removed from the language) make C++ an ugly creature. Once again, though, great and fast programs have been made with it, so I understand how many developers might love the feeling of power and control that C++ gives with respect to safer but more constrained languages such as C# or Java or even further ML or Haskell...
What a fucking touchy topic. I basically got 20 answers of people having hissy fits just because my experience with integrated GPUs has not been satisfactory in the past.
You like integrated GPUs? Great, I'm fucking happy for you. I am a fucking game developer so the more I have to code for fucking compatibility for shitty GPUs the less happy I am. And no, people will still expect games to work decently on any hardware, so "a bit of flash, word and facebook" is fine until it isn't and then it's all "why does my game run so slow".
I think WoW has very low-end graphics. And the "full of shit" comment is just charming. My experience suggests otherwise, as does the experience of millions of other people who prefer to buy discrete cards whenever they can...
Actually I am writing this message on an integrated Radeon, and I am quite happy with it. My fear is that further reduction of power could mean a return to the past, and I've been there and care not to go back:)
Clearly if they do it like ION then there is nothing to fear. If it is another shitty Intel integrated or something like the ancient Radeon IGP then God, please, humanity has been punished enough!
First of all where would this be FUD? Try connecting a full HD monitor to an integrated Intel GPU and you'll see what I meant.
Also, this bullshit that users don't do computing intense stuff is, well, bullshit. Full HD video, 3D movies, photo processing are computationally intensive even if they are not particularly serious usage of computing power. Don't confuse "important work" with "computationally intensive work".
To me it sounds just like paranoia. None of those documents are really as important as you make it sound. Unless we are talking about the format in which we store important scientific and literary works for posterity, then I could not care less about the format used to preserve a bunch of quite irrelevant data.
Lol. The price is the sum of all factors involved. If your workers refuse to do their job properly because they feel linux is not adequate for them then the price goes way up. Once again, use what works considered all factors...
I suppose any moment now the hordes will arrive argumenting everything, from conspiracy theories to "this software is better".
Here is the incredible truth:
Software is just a tool used to accomplish something else. The Real People Out There use what works for them, not what they believe in.
Computer people should stop with the religion wars already, it's frankly ridiculous...
It is published in English for free, and so far no litigations have happened. In this copyright is simply stopping this guy from taking *commercial* advantage of the huge amount of work done in creating the setting for his story.
This said, if they decide to go after this book after all then they should be hanged by their testicles...
True, but indie game devs usually do not have the man power to develop in C++, so the original statement about indies is not entirely accurate.
I know first hand: as a team of a handful of coders and graphics guys, there is no way we could have completed our latest game in C++. Actually thanks God we have two *very* skilled F# coders who wrote a parser and a scripting engine in two days:)
Sort of. Games can be good and tell interesting stories (ME was an instance of a decent critique of modern societies) with believable characters (once again, ME is one of the few games featuring a female protagonsit with less than 6kg of breasts).
Making these games is harder than making dumb games with lots of shooting and semi-naked sterotypical women with huge breasts, and so is selling these games. That is why I feel a tad disappointed. There was a lot of potential that is now lost, and this is because in our society we are yet to find a way to balance money which is a but poor as a sole metaphor for value.
My original comment did not in any way imply that corporations should be removed or disappear.
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...believes that ignoring a problem will make it go away.
Seriously, not airing episodes of a satiric cartoon is in no way related to solving any problems that nuclear power may or may not have. It seems like a very pointless exercise to me...
Yes, because the world needs more segmentation faults. And BTW I have been forced many times to use C++ in my work. I know a shitload about it, especially the various tricks about the template system; the removal of concepts from the standard proves that C++ is, has always been, and will always been a mismatched bunch of tricks held together with duct tape.
Of course you are entitled to your opinion; I know many great programs/programmers exclusively made/working with C++, so I am not implying that the language forces bad programs or diseducates developers. Unfortunately I believe that the absence of a clean idiomatic C++, the proliferation of more or less incompatible coding styles, the confusing compatibility with C (C++ is often used as "C with classes") and the excessively small standard library (I believe that anything found in Boost should never be removed from the language) make C++ an ugly creature. Once again, though, great and fast programs have been made with it, so I understand how many developers might love the feeling of power and control that C++ gives with respect to safer but more constrained languages such as C# or Java or even further ML or Haskell...
...it's not dead yet!
What a pity. So many interesting modern languages to choose from and still people are working on this mismatched fossil.
What a fucking touchy topic. I basically got 20 answers of people having hissy fits just because my experience with integrated GPUs has not been satisfactory in the past.
You like integrated GPUs? Great, I'm fucking happy for you. I am a fucking game developer so the more I have to code for fucking compatibility for shitty GPUs the less happy I am. And no, people will still expect games to work decently on any hardware, so "a bit of flash, word and facebook" is fine until it isn't and then it's all "why does my game run so slow".
I think WoW has very low-end graphics. And the "full of shit" comment is just charming. My experience suggests otherwise, as does the experience of millions of other people who prefer to buy discrete cards whenever they can...
Actually I am writing this message on an integrated Radeon, and I am quite happy with it. My fear is that further reduction of power could mean a return to the past, and I've been there and care not to go back :)
Clearly if they do it like ION then there is nothing to fear. If it is another shitty Intel integrated or something like the ancient Radeon IGP then God, please, humanity has been punished enough!
Nope: computationally intensive means "slower than instantaneous".
First of all where would this be FUD? Try connecting a full HD monitor to an integrated Intel GPU and you'll see what I meant.
Also, this bullshit that users don't do computing intense stuff is, well, bullshit. Full HD video, 3D movies, photo processing are computationally intensive even if they are not particularly serious usage of computing power. Don't confuse "important work" with "computationally intensive work".
No GPGPU, no accelerated desktop, maybe even problems with higher resolutions. Seems like a problem dressed as a solution to me.
...reads TFA, so no need to add it to the post. A byte saved is a byte earned!
Express editions? Dreamspark? MSDNAA?
Flying monkeys!
To me it sounds just like paranoia. None of those documents are really as important as you make it sound. Unless we are talking about the format in which we store important scientific and literary works for posterity, then I could not care less about the format used to preserve a bunch of quite irrelevant data.
Lol. The price is the sum of all factors involved. If your workers refuse to do their job properly because they feel linux is not adequate for them then the price goes way up. Once again, use what works considered all factors...
Virtual points, cool! :D
I suppose any moment now the hordes will arrive argumenting everything, from conspiracy theories to "this software is better".
Here is the incredible truth:
Software is just a tool used to accomplish something else. The Real People Out There use what works for them, not what they believe in.
Computer people should stop with the religion wars already, it's frankly ridiculous...
Definitely, yes...
It is published in English for free, and so far no litigations have happened. In this copyright is simply stopping this guy from taking *commercial* advantage of the huge amount of work done in creating the setting for his story.
This said, if they decide to go after this book after all then they should be hanged by their testicles...
Ok, and I am sympathetic with your situation if you are finding professional difficulties.
Still, indies do have an *almost as good* situation on the Xbox 360 when compared with other consoles where your options are either "no" or "no"...
True, but indie game devs usually do not have the man power to develop in C++, so the original statement about indies is not entirely accurate.
:)
I know first hand: as a team of a handful of coders and graphics guys, there is no way we could have completed our latest game in C++. Actually thanks God we have two *very* skilled F# coders who wrote a parser and a scripting engine in two days
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb975643.aspx
Sort of. Games can be good and tell interesting stories (ME was an instance of a decent critique of modern societies) with believable characters (once again, ME is one of the few games featuring a female protagonsit with less than 6kg of breasts). Making these games is harder than making dumb games with lots of shooting and semi-naked sterotypical women with huge breasts, and so is selling these games. That is why I feel a tad disappointed. There was a lot of potential that is now lost, and this is because in our society we are yet to find a way to balance money which is a but poor as a sole metaphor for value.
My original comment did not in any way imply that corporations should be removed or disappear.
Finally, I am an indie game developer. I have just rejected a series of sketches from one of the designers that my publisher sent me: the main female character was completely naked apart from some futuristic boots. So yes, I make this kind of struggle to avoid clichés and dumbness very often...
Actually I am an indie game developer, so yes, I struggle to achieve this every fucking day. But thanks for playing.
Because they do not judge the value of something based on quality, but exclusively on money. This way many good products get ditched...