If you're interested, one thing to watch is Star Citizen development. It will be a 64 bit game being created for next-gen systems. It will have extremely high poly counts with super realistic physics and shaders coming out the airlocks. There is already a downloadable, small demonstration of the engine called "The Hangar Module", but I think you have to be a contributor to get it.
Trust me, Crysis is dead. The next big question will be, "Does it run SC?"
Well, first they must sell us all of that oil that they are laboriously sucking out of the ground, then they must sell us all that energy produced by their expensive nuclear power plants, then maybe they will actually find a way to cash in on all that green energy business the hippies keep raving about. And then, only then we can talk practically free, abundant energy for everyone.
Uhum, sure.
You might want to add a couple more decades to your list.
Newbies and the untalented struggle because they make everything harder than it needs to be. And even - and especially - those walking around with a master's or better in CS do this. So many create such disasters of design and architecture, shining dreams of pristine theories blown into the hell of over-complex ugliness, revealed almost immediately for what they are by their first practical application.
Amen, brother.
and most particularly Java developers - they are the worst offenders. Call the highest-paid and most arrogant of them 'rock stars' if you will, but they are not nearly the best or most productive programmers.
Highest paid... not likely. These days Java developers are the standard footsoldiers of enterprise development, just as Javascript/PHP developers are the footsoldiers of web development. The high-paying jobs are the highly specialized ones.
But yes, most fresh-out-of-college newbies are to be found in Java,where they do the most long-term damage. I am a Java Developer myself and I do love the language and the VM, but Java does make it easy to create bloated, ugly software that is somewhat functional yet almost impossible to extend or maintain. I think this is a side-effect of how good the Java libraries are. They are so good that they make it easy for anyone to glue stuff together and produce something that works, so you can be "productive" without knowing much about design. In C or C++ for example, you can't do nearly as much without a deep knowledge of how the language works.
If you can't communicate without being an abusive asshole, I don't want to work with you, no matter how "real" your work is. This kind of talk, even if out of context, is infantile and damages the reputation Linux and open source in general.
I'm not just referring to the economic aid in purely monetary terms. I'm referring to the shift in thinking from "we have to keep Germany down" to "we have to build Germany up", which in a large part was thanks to U.S. influence and pressure on the other Allies.
This was not an act of selfless compassion of course, as the U.S. was interested in a bastion against communism, but that does not diminish the argument.
Greeks are the only one to blame for Greece's problems. If you have every third guy working a public office, earning 14 salaries a year comparable to what a German academic earns and finance all of that piling up debt... you deserve to fall flat on your face.
But that didn't happen because German taxpayers are now vouching for hundreds of billions of Greek debt. So please, shut the hell up.
The U.S. and every other country in the world spies using all means at its disposal. The Internet was invented in the U.S. Sorry, but whoever is surprised and shocked at the current revelations is clueless. That is one thing.
The other thing is Vietnam war, Iraq war... if you think U.S. foreign policy is worse now than during Nixon or Bush, you are double clueless beyond hope of recovery.
Well, the U.S. did actually invoke the Marshall plan and helped rebuild Germany, rebuffing France that wanted to scrap Germany's industry and keep it weak forever (can't really blame them though).
No question about it that Germany's Wirtschaftswunder and current standing is in no small part thanks to the industriousness and discipline which are pillars of German culture. But without the U.S. standing in and paving the way, outlook would have been rather bleak.
Disclaimer: I live and grew up in Germany, but I am not a German.
Big surprise. American blacks on average are poorer than American whites. Meaning, live in worse neighbourhoods,visit worse schools and therefore have a worse education than whites. Africans, even more so.
Asians use heavily abstracted, symbolic writing in contrast to European, phonetically oriented writing. If you have ever performed one of those IQ tests you will notice they have a bias towards detecting logical progressions in abstract, visual symbols. Asians will naturally have a keener eye, better memory and generally feel more at ease with the visual symbols in IQ tests, as it has familiarity to their writing.
There may be some merit to IQ tests, but their scope is limited and they do not measure the "raw intelligence potential" of a person. Only how good they are at solving IQ tests...
I agree with the article. Increasingly people relinquish life experiences, if not life itself, out of fear and an unwillingness to take any risks. People who avoid trips to far away countries because of fear of a plane crash are a common occurrence. Yet I also know people who avoid excursions on weekends because they are afraid of being involved in a traffic accident. People who are afraid to visit concerts out of fear of crowds or stampedes, people who love oriental style and culture yet would never visit a country such as Morocco out of fear of kidnap or a terrorist attack.
I have to admit, I also experience this fuzzy fear of doing something new, moving out of my comfort zone, leaving the safe haven of my apartment, my town, my daily routine, every time I leave to do something out of the ordinary. I blame the worldwide media and my addiction to news. It seems like bad things happen all the time, everywhere. But it's important to put things into perspective. The world is a very big place, and 99.998% of the time people are safe and nothing happens. Of course, on those very rare occasions where something unfortunate does happen, it makes news and penetrates into our awareness, tickling our fears.
Of course, just as important as putting things into perspective, is not to be stupid and take unnecessary risks. You want to experience oriental culture? By all means, visit Morocco: Casablanca, Marrakesh, Fes. The people are very friendly and there are beautiful things to see there. But please, stay out of Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq... accepting risk does not have to encompass being reckless.
Looking back, I don't regret a single time I kicked myself in the butt, stepped out of my comfort zone, and experienced new things. Yes, I was anxious on numerous occasions, mostly at airports, nervous and afraid. It doesn't matter. In the end, it was all worth it.
Implying that a 3,25 million bonus isn't all that much because it would 'only' mean an extra $325 if distributed among employees can really only be the opinion of entitled, rich assholes who never have had to struggle at the end of the month. 8 years ago during my student years an extra 30 bucks a month would have meant the world to me. In Europe. And we are talking about mostly Chinese families here. TEN THOUSAND OF THEM.
What you perceive as an anti-Bush tirade is just simple facts. I'm not inherently anti-Bush. In fact, I have defended ex-president Bush on occasion when people started making personal attacks on his looks or character, something which I find in very bad taste. Also, I am certain the main drivers in the Bush administration were Rumsfeld and Cheney, backed by the "Project for the New American Century", while Bush was just the guy putting his signature on papers.
Fact is that the Republican administration during Bush started two wars, in a happy go lucky style, without a detailed plan or exit strategy, without considering repercussions, despite big reservations among key allies, and in at least one case, under false, if not deliberately faked, assumptions. Along the way they created a lawless concentration camp where human rights have no meaning and torture is standard procedure.
The cost in lives and money, the damage created to the U.S. in terms of lost investments and moral authority, is enormous. Perhaps the biggest damage a country has caused itself since Germany in WW2.
But yeah, if you like being in denial you can just call all of this an "anti-Bush tirade" and feel good about yourself, maybe.
God knows I'm not usually one to cite Jesus, but whatever happened to "turn the other cheek"? After 9/11, the World Trade Center should have been rebuilt and the muslim community in the U.S. should have been embraced and integrated. The message to terrorists and the world should have been; while extremists celebrate fear and death, we celebrate our freedom, pluralism and life. It's amazingly hypocritical that the religious conservatives in the U.S. are often the first to favor a heavy handed, military approach to resolving conflict.
With a little help from Bush's republican administration and his policies in support of freedom and democracy, such as patriot act and guantanamo bay, the terrorists won. The U.S. has wasted uncountable billions in useless wars, money which could have been spent in infrastructure, education and social programs, and it has lost all credibility as the leader of the free world. For the last 12 years, the U.S. has been busy dismantling its foundations in the name of the war against terror. 12 years not simply wasted, but actively self-destructive, especially on moral authority. Well, not completely self-destructive. Some corporations and contractors in the business of war and 'security' have been making very happy profits lately, I suppose.
Terrorists are trolls. The U.S. has allowed itself to be trolled to epic proportions. They could never have caused so much damage, cost so many billions, if left to their own devices.
Are you an accountant? Going to college is not just a before/after balance sheet. Of course you can view it like that if money is everything in your life or if you're an idiot. College is also about meeting and connecting with people, making life experiences and important choices, unexpected opportunities, building character, establishing friendships, learning and shaping your mind, knowing what it means to work hard and meet deadlines, and last but not least, fun, girls, parties.
It can't be true. The Republican shills on Fox News told me that global warming is fake, there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Obama is a muslim and not a U.S. citizen, universal health care is a bad, bad thing, rich people pay too much taxes, and that there is no money for evil, commie social welfare programs because poor people are just entitled leeches and they smell bad too, and anyway, we have to invest more hundreds of billions into Northrop Grumman to build more shiny Stealth Fighters with. I need to go buy a rifle in the convenience store to protect me and my family from these crazy liberal, monkey-offspringed disinformationalists. God help us!
When I was in a student exchange program in the U.S. (St. Louis, Missouri) we stopped at a diner for breakfast on the way to some friends and I ordered waffles, expecting to get something like this. What I got instead was three 30cm diameter waffles stacked on top of each other with sweet cream in between and marmalade and powdered sugar on top. I didn't even manage to eat a quarter of that and felt really bad to my hosts for wasting so much food.
Spain's problem is southern Europe's problem is corruption. The state collects taxes, half of the money disappears into deep pockets, there is not enough money to pay for investments in infrastructure and social security, so social security is slashed, investments go down, taxes are raised... repeat.
Corruption is one of the greatest scourges in the world. Greedy, selfish and ambitious people, the scum of Earth.
Slashdot Mirror
If you're interested, one thing to watch is Star Citizen development. It will be a 64 bit game being created for next-gen systems. It will have extremely high poly counts with super realistic physics and shaders coming out the airlocks. There is already a downloadable, small demonstration of the engine called "The Hangar Module", but I think you have to be a contributor to get it.
Trust me, Crysis is dead. The next big question will be, "Does it run SC?"
> Laws are not therefore uniform. They apply only to some...
Sorry, but...
can't resist, to say...
NO SHIT Sherlock.
PASS AUF!
I am sendink meine Panzers out to get you!!! Schutzstaffel!
There already exists at least one book about Carmack and Romero: Masters of Doom.
Wow, every single time I criticize or make a light out of energy businesses or nuclear power, I get modded down. Seriously!
You guys are all over Slashdot, aren't you?
Well, first they must sell us all of that oil that they are laboriously sucking out of the ground, then they must sell us all that energy produced by their expensive nuclear power plants, then maybe they will actually find a way to cash in on all that green energy business the hippies keep raving about. And then, only then we can talk practically free, abundant energy for everyone.
Uhum, sure.
You might want to add a couple more decades to your list.
Newbies and the untalented struggle because they make everything harder than it needs to be. And even - and especially - those walking around with a master's or better in CS do this. So many create such disasters of design and architecture, shining dreams of pristine theories blown into the hell of over-complex ugliness, revealed almost immediately for what they are by their first practical application.
Amen, brother.
and most particularly Java developers - they are the worst offenders. Call the highest-paid and most arrogant of them 'rock stars' if you will, but they are not nearly the best or most productive programmers.
Highest paid... not likely. These days Java developers are the standard footsoldiers of enterprise development, just as Javascript/PHP developers are the footsoldiers of web development.
The high-paying jobs are the highly specialized ones.
But yes, most fresh-out-of-college newbies are to be found in Java,where they do the most long-term damage. I am a Java Developer myself and I do love the language and the VM, but Java does make it easy to create bloated, ugly software that is somewhat functional yet almost impossible to extend or maintain. I think this is a side-effect of how good the Java libraries are. They are so good that they make it easy for anyone to glue stuff together and produce something that works, so you can be "productive" without knowing much about design. In C or C++ for example, you can't do nearly as much without a deep knowledge of how the language works.
KERNAL, it's where Linus goes to when he gets pissed.
If you can't communicate without being an abusive asshole, I don't want to work with you, no matter how "real" your work is.
This kind of talk, even if out of context, is infantile and damages the reputation Linux and open source in general.
I'm not just referring to the economic aid in purely monetary terms. I'm referring to the shift in thinking from "we have to keep Germany down" to "we have to build Germany up", which in a large part was thanks to U.S. influence and pressure on the other Allies.
This was not an act of selfless compassion of course, as the U.S. was interested in a bastion against communism, but that does not diminish the argument.
Greeks are the only one to blame for Greece's problems. If you have every third guy working a public office, earning 14 salaries a year comparable to what a German academic earns and finance all of that piling up debt... you deserve to fall flat on your face.
But that didn't happen because German taxpayers are now vouching for hundreds of billions of Greek debt.
So please, shut the hell up.
US foreign policy has never been worse than now
You have to be joking.
The U.S. and every other country in the world spies using all means at its disposal. The Internet was invented in the U.S. Sorry, but whoever is surprised and shocked at the current revelations is clueless. That is one thing.
The other thing is Vietnam war, Iraq war... if you think U.S. foreign policy is worse now than during Nixon or Bush, you are double clueless beyond hope of recovery.
Well, the U.S. did actually invoke the Marshall plan and helped rebuild Germany, rebuffing France that wanted to scrap Germany's industry and keep it weak forever (can't really blame them though).
No question about it that Germany's Wirtschaftswunder and current standing is in no small part thanks to the industriousness and discipline which are pillars of German culture. But without the U.S. standing in and paving the way, outlook would have been rather bleak.
Disclaimer: I live and grew up in Germany, but I am not a German.
Big surprise. American blacks on average are poorer than American whites. Meaning, live in worse neighbourhoods ,visit worse schools and therefore have a worse education than whites. Africans, even more so.
Asians use heavily abstracted, symbolic writing in contrast to European, phonetically oriented writing. If you have ever performed one of those IQ tests you will notice they have a bias towards detecting logical progressions in abstract, visual symbols. Asians will naturally have a keener eye, better memory and generally feel more at ease with the visual symbols in IQ tests, as it has familiarity to their writing.
There may be some merit to IQ tests, but their scope is limited and they do not measure the "raw intelligence potential" of a person. Only how good they are at solving IQ tests...
I agree with the article. Increasingly people relinquish life experiences, if not life itself, out of fear and an unwillingness to take any risks. People who avoid trips to far away countries because of fear of a plane crash are a common occurrence. Yet I also know people who avoid excursions on weekends because they are afraid of being involved in a traffic accident. People who are afraid to visit concerts out of fear of crowds or stampedes, people who love oriental style and culture yet would never visit a country such as Morocco out of fear of kidnap or a terrorist attack.
I have to admit, I also experience this fuzzy fear of doing something new, moving out of my comfort zone, leaving the safe haven of my apartment, my town, my daily routine, every time I leave to do something out of the ordinary. I blame the worldwide media and my addiction to news. It seems like bad things happen all the time, everywhere. But it's important to put things into perspective. The world is a very big place, and 99.998% of the time people are safe and nothing happens. Of course, on those very rare occasions where something unfortunate does happen, it makes news and penetrates into our awareness, tickling our fears.
Of course, just as important as putting things into perspective, is not to be stupid and take unnecessary risks. You want to experience oriental culture? By all means, visit Morocco: Casablanca, Marrakesh, Fes. The people are very friendly and there are beautiful things to see there. But please, stay out of Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq... accepting risk does not have to encompass being reckless.
Looking back, I don't regret a single time I kicked myself in the butt, stepped out of my comfort zone, and experienced new things. Yes, I was anxious on numerous occasions, mostly at airports, nervous and afraid. It doesn't matter. In the end, it was all worth it.
Implying that a 3,25 million bonus isn't all that much because it would 'only' mean an extra $325 if distributed among employees can really only be the opinion of entitled, rich assholes who never have had to struggle at the end of the month. 8 years ago during my student years an extra 30 bucks a month would have meant the world to me. In Europe. And we are talking about mostly Chinese families here.
TEN THOUSAND OF THEM.
Until Godzilla stomps out of the ocean and takes a huge dump in central Tokyo.
What you perceive as an anti-Bush tirade is just simple facts. I'm not inherently anti-Bush. In fact, I have defended ex-president Bush on occasion when people started making personal attacks on his looks or character, something which I find in very bad taste. Also, I am certain the main drivers in the Bush administration were Rumsfeld and Cheney, backed by the "Project for the New American Century", while Bush was just the guy putting his signature on papers.
Fact is that the Republican administration during Bush started two wars, in a happy go lucky style, without a detailed plan or exit strategy, without considering repercussions, despite big reservations among key allies, and in at least one case, under false, if not deliberately faked, assumptions. Along the way they created a lawless concentration camp where human rights have no meaning and torture is standard procedure.
The cost in lives and money, the damage created to the U.S. in terms of lost investments and moral authority, is enormous. Perhaps the biggest damage a country has caused itself since Germany in WW2.
But yeah, if you like being in denial you can just call all of this an "anti-Bush tirade" and feel good about yourself, maybe.
God knows I'm not usually one to cite Jesus, but whatever happened to "turn the other cheek"? After 9/11, the World Trade Center should have been rebuilt and the muslim community in the U.S. should have been embraced and integrated. The message to terrorists and the world should have been; while extremists celebrate fear and death, we celebrate our freedom, pluralism and life.
It's amazingly hypocritical that the religious conservatives in the U.S. are often the first to favor a heavy handed, military approach to resolving conflict.
With a little help from Bush's republican administration and his policies in support of freedom and democracy, such as patriot act and guantanamo bay, the terrorists won. The U.S. has wasted uncountable billions in useless wars, money which could have been spent in infrastructure, education and social programs, and it has lost all credibility as the leader of the free world. For the last 12 years, the U.S. has been busy dismantling its foundations in the name of the war against terror. 12 years not simply wasted, but actively self-destructive, especially on moral authority.
Well, not completely self-destructive. Some corporations and contractors in the business of war and 'security' have been making very happy profits lately, I suppose.
Terrorists are trolls. The U.S. has allowed itself to be trolled to epic proportions. They could never have caused so much damage, cost so many billions, if left to their own devices.
Are you an accountant? Going to college is not just a before/after balance sheet. Of course you can view it like that if money is everything in your life or if you're an idiot.
College is also about meeting and connecting with people, making life experiences and important choices, unexpected opportunities, building character, establishing friendships, learning and shaping your mind, knowing what it means to work hard and meet deadlines, and last but not least, fun, girls, parties.
Thanks for modding me flamebait. How unfortunate that the circumstances parodied above are all very real.
It can't be true. The Republican shills on Fox News told me that global warming is fake, there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Obama is a muslim and not a U.S. citizen, universal health care is a bad, bad thing, rich people pay too much taxes, and that there is no money for evil, commie social welfare programs because poor people are just entitled leeches and they smell bad too, and anyway, we have to invest more hundreds of billions into Northrop Grumman to build more shiny Stealth Fighters with.
I need to go buy a rifle in the convenience store to protect me and my family from these crazy liberal, monkey-offspringed disinformationalists. God help us!
When I was in a student exchange program in the U.S. (St. Louis, Missouri) we stopped at a diner for breakfast on the way to some friends and I ordered waffles, expecting to get something like this. What I got instead was three 30cm diameter waffles stacked on top of each other with sweet cream in between and marmalade and powdered sugar on top. I didn't even manage to eat a quarter of that and felt really bad to my hosts for wasting so much food.
Spain's problem is southern Europe's problem is corruption.
The state collects taxes, half of the money disappears into deep pockets, there is not enough money to pay for investments in infrastructure and social security, so social security is slashed, investments go down, taxes are raised... repeat.
Corruption is one of the greatest scourges in the world. Greedy, selfish and ambitious people, the scum of Earth.