I used to be a big buyer of games. $60 a pop, often, no problem. Back in the golden days. But now I hardly buy any games, and I'm very wary of purchasing any game that was also released for a console. Most recent example, Dungeon Siege III. Thank god for the demo, because I may have bought it sight unseen.
But I heard this strait from developers. If you're going to sell 10 million copies of the game for the console, and only 1 million for the PC, who do you think gets priority? You can explain all day to them what they're doing wrong for the PC ports, but they already get it and just don't care, because that's not where most of the money is coming from.
It's the same thing that happened with the new Netflix web interface. You think they don't know it sucks for PC users? Damn right they know. They know and they just don't care, because their biggest customer base has shifted to "devices" that have different interface capabilities, and pleasing the PC user isn't worth the extra development cost.
But the severity of the reaction will diminish each time they pull this stunt. By the 5th or 6th iteration it's likely to be such a subdued reaction that they'll get away with it completely. It seems to be human nature that each time we are outraged by something, the impact each time it happens slowly diminishes until we accept it as part of life.
This is another reason on top of consilitis why I just stopped buying PC games. I used to buy them all the time.
What steams me is that now developers complain that the PC game market is "weak" and "fractured" when they don't even understand it's their own damn fault.
It has nothing to do with what's popular or cool. VSS has been judged terrible by a whole lot of objective criteria. I'd list them all out here, but the issue is so old and settled it'd be beating a dead horse. It's really a laugh that you say that people who have arrived at this consensus are just not open-minded.
I know your type - the entrenched, isolated programmer who doesn't explore outside of what's in his own little pond. Maybe you even pronounce C# "C hash". Without even seeing your work I already know you're not worth your salary.
Line the interior with solar cells and feed some of the electricity to HVAC systems which, at that scale, could air-condition an entire city around the perimeter.
The waste heat could then be dumped back into the main stack, making it even more efficient.
MULTI-THREADING. The game overtaxes even modern single cores. If we could get some multiple cores going, our games' complexity wouldn't have to be limited by the game's binaries.
When you have many items in a world all interacting with each other at once, especially done in the terrible C++ way, it's not trivial at all to parallelize. It's something you can only properly achieve if you had parallelization in mind from the beginning of the design.
He'd have to rewrite the whole thing from the ground up, preferably in a language more suited to the task. Bad news for this, because in my experience C/C++ programmers never move on.
... the outcry is significant and it is problematic, but it's also important to note how quickly these things are forgotten.
WRONG. Just because the media stops reporting on something after a week doesn't mean it's forgotten. The people who are pissed off remain pissed off a lot longer than that.
The point is that it's evidence of overprescription, not of excessive psychotic behavior.
There is also a problem in the observations in the summary--notably, the mere fact that we are expanding our clinical definitions of psychological diagnoses is NOT a bad thing
Yes it is. If you're a hammer everything looks like a nail.
Research should be much more focused on what makes a person's mind healthy and resilient.
But assuming that most of us possess the keys to our own growth doesn't fit with the economic model of the industry.
You're 'sick' but we can 'cure' you. And by they way, we need your MONEY. Always more MONEY.
I wonder what the range would be if you used very low-frequency, specially-built resonators and a few megawatts of power. Maybe you could throw it out about a wavelength and burst organs through body armor at 50 yards.
Oh I'm not knocking Excel. I LOVE financial customers and their spreadsheets. They know exactly what they want, and that makes them very easy to please.
The thing about math and science courses is there is one demonstrateable correct answer. Thinking for yourself is worth fuckall if that means 1+1=pi
Once you have the method down teachers love good new questions. If you want to argue about perpetual motion while studying conservation of energy expect limited tolerance for your 'thinking for yourself'.
Nobody studies "conservation of energy". It's called thermodynamics. You think in the middle of the course someone would "argue about perpetual motion"? How? With what equations? That doesn't even make sense.
You don't understand science or engineering. Thinking for yourself and being creative is a must in design, and designing experiments. You think it's all about math and seeing if your equations are right? Equations are just tools. You learn these tools and are free to and encouraged to apply them creatively.
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that everyone develops the same types of applications he does, or would seriously benefit by switching to C++?
Yeah, let's develop all desktop and web applications in C++. Right, big productivity boost there.
I used to be a big buyer of games. $60 a pop, often, no problem. Back in the golden days. But now I hardly buy any games, and I'm very wary of purchasing any game that was also released for a console. Most recent example, Dungeon Siege III. Thank god for the demo, because I may have bought it sight unseen.
But I heard this strait from developers. If you're going to sell 10 million copies of the game for the console, and only 1 million for the PC, who do you think gets priority? You can explain all day to them what they're doing wrong for the PC ports, but they already get it and just don't care, because that's not where most of the money is coming from.
It's the same thing that happened with the new Netflix web interface. You think they don't know it sucks for PC users? Damn right they know. They know and they just don't care, because their biggest customer base has shifted to "devices" that have different interface capabilities, and pleasing the PC user isn't worth the extra development cost.
But the severity of the reaction will diminish each time they pull this stunt. By the 5th or 6th iteration it's likely to be such a subdued reaction that they'll get away with it completely. It seems to be human nature that each time we are outraged by something, the impact each time it happens slowly diminishes until we accept it as part of life.
This is another reason on top of consilitis why I just stopped buying PC games. I used to buy them all the time.
What steams me is that now developers complain that the PC game market is "weak" and "fractured" when they don't even understand it's their own damn fault.
It has nothing to do with what's popular or cool. VSS has been judged terrible by a whole lot of objective criteria. I'd list them all out here, but the issue is so old and settled it'd be beating a dead horse. It's really a laugh that you say that people who have arrived at this consensus are just not open-minded.
I know your type - the entrenched, isolated programmer who doesn't explore outside of what's in his own little pond. Maybe you even pronounce C# "C hash". Without even seeing your work I already know you're not worth your salary.
You just praised VSS and lost all your developer credibility.
Please hand in your nerd card. I'll show you to the door.
I thought it was a pretty good film about Avatars.
"and that was rectified early this morning"
Great doublespeak insinuating someone actively did something to fix the websites, when in reality the problem went away because people went to bed.
I thought Twitter already obsolete.
Line the interior with solar cells and feed some of the electricity to HVAC systems which, at that scale, could air-condition an entire city around the perimeter.
The waste heat could then be dumped back into the main stack, making it even more efficient.
the MBA is a vocational degree
Huh? Isn't "vocational" supposed to mean "useful"?
Seriously, I'm only half joking - plumber, electrician, carpenter... useful. MBA... seriously?
MULTI-THREADING. The game overtaxes even modern single cores. If we could get some multiple cores going, our games' complexity wouldn't have to be limited by the game's binaries.
When you have many items in a world all interacting with each other at once, especially done in the terrible C++ way, it's not trivial at all to parallelize. It's something you can only properly achieve if you had parallelization in mind from the beginning of the design.
He'd have to rewrite the whole thing from the ground up, preferably in a language more suited to the task. Bad news for this, because in my experience C/C++ programmers never move on.
... the outcry is significant and it is problematic, but it's also important to note how quickly these things are forgotten.
WRONG. Just because the media stops reporting on something after a week doesn't mean it's forgotten. The people who are pissed off remain pissed off a lot longer than that.
I love it how every questionable incident with the police involves a charge of "resisting arrest".
Maybe it's a good predictor of BS.
Looks klunky.
I bet the did the 80 foot display as a PR stunt to hide the fact that the software's just plain shitty.
The point is that it's evidence of overprescription, not of excessive psychotic behavior.
There is also a problem in the observations in the summary--notably, the mere fact that we are expanding our clinical definitions of psychological diagnoses is NOT a bad thing
Yes it is. If you're a hammer everything looks like a nail.
Research should be much more focused on what makes a person's mind healthy and resilient. But assuming that most of us possess the keys to our own growth doesn't fit with the economic model of the industry.
You're 'sick' but we can 'cure' you. And by they way, we need your MONEY. Always more MONEY.
I wonder what the range would be if you used very low-frequency, specially-built resonators and a few megawatts of power. Maybe you could throw it out about a wavelength and burst organs through body armor at 50 yards.
Oh I'm not knocking Excel. I LOVE financial customers and their spreadsheets. They know exactly what they want, and that makes them very easy to please.
The company also supports Excel and all different versions of Linux.
Riiiight.
Come on, I thought this was News for Nerds.
we have old ladies getting their depends removed by the TSA at the airport and it's just tolerated
especially for small operations
That is my point. There is no 'creative' part in learning the rules. The creative part comes later.
With respect - this is not true for MIT, and any other place worth going to learn science and engineering.
that's just Netflix.
web apps still suck compared to the real ones.
The thing about math and science courses is there is one demonstrateable correct answer. Thinking for yourself is worth fuckall if that means 1+1=pi
Once you have the method down teachers love good new questions. If you want to argue about perpetual motion while studying conservation of energy expect limited tolerance for your 'thinking for yourself'.
Nobody studies "conservation of energy". It's called thermodynamics. You think in the middle of the course someone would "argue about perpetual motion"? How? With what equations? That doesn't even make sense.
You don't understand science or engineering. Thinking for yourself and being creative is a must in design, and designing experiments. You think it's all about math and seeing if your equations are right? Equations are just tools. You learn these tools and are free to and encouraged to apply them creatively.