Stop contradicting yourself. They don't chose it because it's custom forced on them by parents. Most of them don't know much about god and only parrot it because they forced to repeat church's dogma by peer pressure. Some people might think there's something out there but don't agree with all of the church dogmas or don't know them and end up making up something of their own. The very notion of god is content-free. The real question here is are you affiliated with particular religious institution? And number of affiliated people is significantly less than that of those who could contemplate notion of god and redefine it according to their whims.
If people assert "belief in god" it doesn't even mean adherence to particular church or religious institution. In fact most people tend to get disillusioned with particular religious institutions of their geographic areas long before they stop referring to god and notions like that.
As an ignostic I can note that it doesn't mean much because everyone have different vision of this term, and ascribe different meaning to the statement. In fact one person can ascribe different meaning to God depending on context or his mood or point he wants to make thus making the term utterly meaningless.
The guy just decided to go vector way and to deflect possible criticism from old fans wrote this article. It provides a lots of points for and against but I believe none of them is decisive. What can only be really decisive is a chance to explore new frontiers, in this case by changing art direction.
The cops don't really need backdoors to security systems. The proper way is to use cryptanalysis to break those cyphers. It's a hard task but government has access to supercomputers. They don't need backdoor to all ciphers just like they don't need master key to all locks. Their push against cryptography is irrational and will in fact compromise security. No encryption means easy access to credit card credentials and what not for criminals. Backdoors mean that criminals can use it too. Only matter of time before it leaks.
Now it is easier to initially install than Windows. Where I find it lacking is that tweaking of the setup after installation that has lagged behind. Windows has the control panel. Each X windows manager has its own control panel which all seem to miss this or that feature. I'll admit, it has been a few years, so this may have improved, but Linux on the desktop just needs easy, graphical configuration tools for everything and it will be ready for everyone to use. Microsoft has given everyone else a window of opportunity with the debacle of where is this setting in Windows 8.x.
All this is irrelevant. Linux already is used heavily by technical people who bother to install their OS. Vast majority of people don't install their OS and use whatever OS vendor installs. Windows managed to get its market share by dealing with PC vendors. Quality was never something OSes competed on. Subverting vendors with evangelism is only thing that matters.
There always is room for improvement, but in this case that improvement is done in one step forward two steps backwards sort of way. Indeed a lot of history exists but people who actually make games mostly ignore it. I feel that areas I named have in some ways even regressed since 1990s and something needs to be done about that. Maybe good intentions are involved here, but as saying goes road to hell is paved with good intentions..
You may make up as many excuses as you wish. But did it contain Rome? No. Did it speak Latin? No. There you are. As time went by Byzantine has changed both politically and culturally and at end of its days had no more claim of being Rome than Sultanate of Rum or orthodox Tsardom("Tsar" is from "Caesar") of Russia, "third Rome".
By the way, "propaganda and murder" IS a trait of a people - not biological, but cultural.
Uhh.. I think you better look up those words in a dictionary. No matter Greek or no all rulers tend to resort to them, some more, some less. Mapping it to some nationality traits is nonsense. The very notion of nationality is nonsense. All this is sophistry and waste of time.
What does it have to do with Mongols? You mean that original invaders were of mongoloid phenotype? Nobody ever cared about that at that time. Islam vs Christianity mattered a lot more. And whole concept of nationality didn't even exist. Just some powerful warlord conquered Anatolia from Byzantine and made it his property. Was he mongoloid of Turkish origin? Nobody cared.
We Greeks have many negative traits, but i think "propaganda and murder" are not among them Sir.
"propaganda and murder" isn't a trait of a people, but tools of ruling elite, including some Byzantine(that is Greek who pretends to be Roman) emperors.
Mostly "Turks" are of Armenian and Greek ancestry, their ancestors being Armenians and Greeks converted to Turkish culture, either voluntarily using economic incentives or enslaved in young age and grown as Turks. So any Armenians and Greeks that don't want to be Turks are considered existential threat by Turkish nationalists..
Unless they assume they already pay more than needed. The main problem here isn't money. The point is changing requirements make project significantly later no matter how much money is spent on it. This economy cargo cult idea that money automatically make things happen is one of underlying reasons of all messes like that. Religious belief in power of money often makes people forget about doing actual work.
OK. If government can't determine what is religion and what isn't then any corporation can declare itself a religious organization and take tax break. No justification is needed whatsoever because government can't determine this. So just make it a blanket tax exemption for everyone to avoid wasting time on paperwork that will result in them all declaring themselves religion.
It's obvious that the reason for those changing requirements is that they lack understanding of how development process works, so they just need technical background to understand what requirements make sense and what don't. Just being good at "management" is not enough.
No, it's not GPL that is PITA but closed specs and NDA requirements. They're PITA no matter whether you're using BSD or GPL. So who cares if GPL prevents you from doing things in lawyer approved OCD way those companies want? It just won't work. At most you'll end up with some BLOB nobody maintains and which gets obsolete within a year.
Bioware mostly remembered for RPG games like Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights. Those were before ME. And ME was the turning point when Bioware finally abandoned RPG core gameplay and switched to FPS/TPS core gameplay. That's the reason many people consider it dead. Because it's no longer doing what gave it worldwide fame, namely RPGs.
You don't make things clearer if you add more verbosity. It's the other way around. People will get lost in details without any job getting done. Copy/pasting boilerplate is boring and error prone(because you need to plug it into your code after all and may modify some bits). Better make api more powerful so there will be no need to have boilerplate in the first place.
Well, you're getting too excited about something that is evolutionary step backward and such hasty statements are a proof of this. I myself have some opengl experience and I can tell you getting to lower level is NOT what I would want. Yet I don't want to be locked into using an engine either with their often suspect design decisions. I consider opengl to be in sweet spot in this regard, though shaders are kinda pushing it.
Then it's not replacement for opengl and shouldn't be considered one, but an api one level below. And I don't really think it's such a good idea. Like switching from C back to assembly.
It's really hard to prove that this 10-20% comes from api alone, if it exists at all. Sounds like random ass pull to me. (But a person who is paid per line of code will have no trouble proving this with a powerpoint presentation that'll absolutely convince anyone ignorant about graphics) Anyway right now we don't need more fps, but rather more stability. And having less code helps with that. Statistically bug count is proportional to line count and obviously shifting some code from drivers to be repeated by every application raises line count drastically.
600 lines to write a program that renders a triangle? Such apis are obsolete in 21th century period. Don't care what cowboy coders do on their game consoles. There's no need for line of code count maximization techniques in opensource.
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Stop contradicting yourself. They don't chose it because it's custom forced on them by parents. Most of them don't know much about god and only parrot it because they forced to repeat church's dogma by peer pressure. Some people might think there's something out there but don't agree with all of the church dogmas or don't know them and end up making up something of their own. The very notion of god is content-free. The real question here is are you affiliated with particular religious institution? And number of affiliated people is significantly less than that of those who could contemplate notion of god and redefine it according to their whims.
If people assert "belief in god" it doesn't even mean adherence to particular church or religious institution. In fact most people tend to get disillusioned with particular religious institutions of their geographic areas long before they stop referring to god and notions like that.
As an ignostic I can note that it doesn't mean much because everyone have different vision of this term, and ascribe different meaning to the statement. In fact one person can ascribe different meaning to God depending on context or his mood or point he wants to make thus making the term utterly meaningless.
The guy just decided to go vector way and to deflect possible criticism from old fans wrote this article. It provides a lots of points for and against but I believe none of them is decisive. What can only be really decisive is a chance to explore new frontiers, in this case by changing art direction.
The cops don't really need backdoors to security systems. The proper way is to use cryptanalysis to break those cyphers. It's a hard task but government has access to supercomputers. They don't need backdoor to all ciphers just like they don't need master key to all locks. Their push against cryptography is irrational and will in fact compromise security. No encryption means easy access to credit card credentials and what not for criminals. Backdoors mean that criminals can use it too. Only matter of time before it leaks.
Now it is easier to initially install than Windows. Where I find it lacking is that tweaking of the setup after installation that has lagged behind. Windows has the control panel. Each X windows manager has its own control panel which all seem to miss this or that feature. I'll admit, it has been a few years, so this may have improved, but Linux on the desktop just needs easy, graphical configuration tools for everything and it will be ready for everyone to use. Microsoft has given everyone else a window of opportunity with the debacle of where is this setting in Windows 8.x.
All this is irrelevant. Linux already is used heavily by technical people who bother to install their OS. Vast majority of people don't install their OS and use whatever OS vendor installs. Windows managed to get its market share by dealing with PC vendors. Quality was never something OSes competed on. Subverting vendors with evangelism is only thing that matters.
There always is room for improvement, but in this case that improvement is done in one step forward two steps backwards sort of way. Indeed a lot of history exists but people who actually make games mostly ignore it. I feel that areas I named have in some ways even regressed since 1990s and something needs to be done about that. Maybe good intentions are involved here, but as saying goes road to hell is paved with good intentions..
You may make up as many excuses as you wish. But did it contain Rome? No. Did it speak Latin? No. There you are. As time went by Byzantine has changed both politically and culturally and at end of its days had no more claim of being Rome than Sultanate of Rum or orthodox Tsardom("Tsar" is from "Caesar") of Russia, "third Rome".
By the way, "propaganda and murder" IS a trait of a people - not biological, but cultural.
Uhh.. I think you better look up those words in a dictionary. No matter Greek or no all rulers tend to resort to them, some more, some less. Mapping it to some nationality traits is nonsense. The very notion of nationality is nonsense. All this is sophistry and waste of time.
What does it have to do with Mongols? You mean that original invaders were of mongoloid phenotype? Nobody ever cared about that at that time. Islam vs Christianity mattered a lot more. And whole concept of nationality didn't even exist. Just some powerful warlord conquered Anatolia from Byzantine and made it his property. Was he mongoloid of Turkish origin? Nobody cared.
We Greeks have many negative traits, but i think "propaganda and murder" are not among them Sir.
"propaganda and murder" isn't a trait of a people, but tools of ruling elite, including some Byzantine(that is Greek who pretends to be Roman) emperors.
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Also AI design, GUI design, plot writing, game ruleset design.. Everything except graphics.
Mostly "Turks" are of Armenian and Greek ancestry, their ancestors being Armenians and Greeks converted to Turkish culture, either voluntarily using economic incentives or enslaved in young age and grown as Turks. So any Armenians and Greeks that don't want to be Turks are considered existential threat by Turkish nationalists..
Unless they assume they already pay more than needed. The main problem here isn't money. The point is changing requirements make project significantly later no matter how much money is spent on it. This economy cargo cult idea that money automatically make things happen is one of underlying reasons of all messes like that. Religious belief in power of money often makes people forget about doing actual work.
OK. If government can't determine what is religion and what isn't then any corporation can declare itself a religious organization and take tax break. No justification is needed whatsoever because government can't determine this. So just make it a blanket tax exemption for everyone to avoid wasting time on paperwork that will result in them all declaring themselves religion.
It's obvious that the reason for those changing requirements is that they lack understanding of how development process works, so they just need technical background to understand what requirements make sense and what don't. Just being good at "management" is not enough.
No, it's not GPL that is PITA but closed specs and NDA requirements. They're PITA no matter whether you're using BSD or GPL. So who cares if GPL prevents you from doing things in lawyer approved OCD way those companies want? It just won't work. At most you'll end up with some BLOB nobody maintains and which gets obsolete within a year.
Jade Empire still existed alongside proper RPGs. Could be considered a side project.
Bioware mostly remembered for RPG games like Baldur's Gate and Neverwinter Nights. Those were before ME. And ME was the turning point when Bioware finally abandoned RPG core gameplay and switched to FPS/TPS core gameplay. That's the reason many people consider it dead. Because it's no longer doing what gave it worldwide fame, namely RPGs.
You don't make things clearer if you add more verbosity. It's the other way around. People will get lost in details without any job getting done. Copy/pasting boilerplate is boring and error prone(because you need to plug it into your code after all and may modify some bits). Better make api more powerful so there will be no need to have boilerplate in the first place.
Well, you're getting too excited about something that is evolutionary step backward and such hasty statements are a proof of this. I myself have some opengl experience and I can tell you getting to lower level is NOT what I would want. Yet I don't want to be locked into using an engine either with their often suspect design decisions. I consider opengl to be in sweet spot in this regard, though shaders are kinda pushing it.
Then it's not replacement for opengl and shouldn't be considered one, but an api one level below. And I don't really think it's such a good idea. Like switching from C back to assembly.
It's really hard to prove that this 10-20% comes from api alone, if it exists at all. Sounds like random ass pull to me. (But a person who is paid per line of code will have no trouble proving this with a powerpoint presentation that'll absolutely convince anyone ignorant about graphics) Anyway right now we don't need more fps, but rather more stability. And having less code helps with that. Statistically bug count is proportional to line count and obviously shifting some code from drivers to be repeated by every application raises line count drastically.
600 lines to write a program that renders a triangle? Such apis are obsolete in 21th century period. Don't care what cowboy coders do on their game consoles. There's no need for line of code count maximization techniques in opensource.