Bandwidth has gotten cheaper and more common. More people have fast connections though. The bandwidth usage for this sort of thing has increased much more than the price of bandwidth has decreased.
Also, companies like this no longer get VC funding to give shit away for free, so they need to make some sort of attempt at making money.
I think it's lame too, and I try to find other mirrors, but don't pretend like they are the devil because they aren't willing to piss away money for your convinience.
-Brian
They could never move their headquarters. One of the biggest reasons they are able to attract good employees is that they are based in Redmond, a great place to live. They would have a very hard time getting even a tenth of their employees to move to a different country (unless the country is India).
-Brian
There was a thread about this on the UW undergrad newsgroup a while back. It consistend of the students yelling WTF?! and the administration keeping mum.
The worst part about this isn't that Java is used as an intro OO language. The problem is that Java will filter in to later classes. Data structures will naturally be done in Java, as the language is perfect for it and all the students will know it. Suddenly a student's first exposure to C/C++ will be in a 400 level class like networks or OS. Some will be doomed to learn C and re-write the TCP stack at the same time.
Not pretty.
My point was that, while you can say what you will about Microsoft, AOL is a cultural cyst.
I'd sooner have the mafia running things than the thought-police.
-Brian
I'm an undergrad in the UW CS department.
No games-specific content in our classwork, per se. We do have world-class AI, networking, and graphics faculty, which helps. Also, there is a capstone design course that I am currently taking. In it, you and 5 other students tie together everything you've learned in a 3D networked multiplayer game. Monolith donates the lithtech engine for this class, and most people use it, though it isn't required.
-Brian
I am graduating with a CS degree in a couple months. I am a big gaming dork, and have ben since I was a little kid. This, got me flown out to talk with one of the companies mentioned in this ask slashdot.
Being pretty smart and enthusiastic about games got me a job offer.
I ended up not taking the job though. I really wanted to do games, but they offered me a lot less money than I wanted, especially to move to that expensive area. I ended up taking a job with a software company here making $17K more in a lower cost of living environment.
Some day, I may regret not having taken that job. We'll see, it depends on if I can work my way into the games group at the company I work for now within a year or two.
-Brian
We like competitive pay, and negotiating our own contracts. We don't want to be paid the same as all the other people with the same title, varied only by seniority.
-Brian
Therefore, Chess has a value when using pure strategies - that is, one player has a best strategy that, if played, the other could do nothing to prevent the outcome!
Not quite. Tic-tac-toe has the same properties, but there is no guarenteed way to win. You can guarentee a draw, if you are perfect.
-Brian
Ah, but these crimees are far less common than they were in say, oh, the middle ages. What else was going on in the middle ages you ask? Well for one there was no porn. And the church was the most powerful entity in the land...
-Brian
So we should not let people drive cars because some of them drive drunk? We can't punish curteous cell phone users along with the retards. It will become socially unnacceptable to leave your cell phone on in theatres, classes, etc. and people will stop doing it.
-Brian
Wow, maybe CS at your school is a joke. Around here, CS gets computer architecture so you understand how computing hardware and software interact. What you don't get is electrical engineering. What you get as compensation is greater freedom to study what you're interested in, and more depth in advanced fields like AI, Graphics, Networks, etc...
-Brian
Heh... I think you are being fed a load. At the U of Wash (In the top 10 US CS&E schools) CE and CS people range from 45-75 first year out. CE people often take hardware design jobs and make on average 1 or 2K more than CS.
-Brian
Magnetite trails are created by organisms on earth. That's how we know they are formed by life. The reason they think these ones are special is that they believe they are older than life on earth.
-Brian
It takes just as much skill to write a program in C as it does to write a good sonnet in English.
Er... Really? I can write good programs and crappy Sonnets. Most people who can write good Sonnets can't even write a crappy program. I would even venture so far as to say that a large number of the people who can write good Sonnets would not even be able to write a crappy program if instructed on how to do so...
-Brian
Slashdot Mirror
If Quake 3 isn't for the hardcore elite, what is?
Bandwidth has gotten cheaper and more common. More people have fast connections though. The bandwidth usage for this sort of thing has increased much more than the price of bandwidth has decreased.
Also, companies like this no longer get VC funding to give shit away for free, so they need to make some sort of attempt at making money.
I think it's lame too, and I try to find other mirrors, but don't pretend like they are the devil because they aren't willing to piss away money for your convinience.
-Brian
Politically motivated? Yes. Inflammatory? You bet. False? Nope.
They could never move their headquarters. One of the biggest reasons they are able to attract good employees is that they are based in Redmond, a great place to live. They would have a very hard time getting even a tenth of their employees to move to a different country (unless the country is India).
-Brian
There was a thread about this on the UW undergrad newsgroup a while back. It consistend of the students yelling WTF?! and the administration keeping mum.
The worst part about this isn't that Java is used as an intro OO language. The problem is that Java will filter in to later classes. Data structures will naturally be done in Java, as the language is perfect for it and all the students will know it. Suddenly a student's first exposure to C/C++ will be in a 400 level class like networks or OS. Some will be doomed to learn C and re-write the TCP stack at the same time.
Not pretty.
My point was that, while you can say what you will about Microsoft, AOL is a cultural cyst.
I'd sooner have the mafia running things than the thought-police.
-Brian
Agreed. I'd rather see MS succeed than AOL. ::shudder::
-Brian
I'm an undergrad in the UW CS department.
No games-specific content in our classwork, per se. We do have world-class AI, networking, and graphics faculty, which helps. Also, there is a capstone design course that I am currently taking. In it, you and 5 other students tie together everything you've learned in a 3D networked multiplayer game. Monolith donates the lithtech engine for this class, and most people use it, though it isn't required.
-Brian
I am graduating with a CS degree in a couple months. I am a big gaming dork, and have ben since I was a little kid. This, got me flown out to talk with one of the companies mentioned in this ask slashdot.
Being pretty smart and enthusiastic about games got me a job offer.
I ended up not taking the job though. I really wanted to do games, but they offered me a lot less money than I wanted, especially to move to that expensive area. I ended up taking a job with a software company here making $17K more in a lower cost of living environment.
Some day, I may regret not having taken that job. We'll see, it depends on if I can work my way into the games group at the company I work for now within a year or two.
-Brian
We like competitive pay, and negotiating our own contracts. We don't want to be paid the same as all the other people with the same title, varied only by seniority.
-Brian
Therefore, Chess has a value when using pure strategies - that is, one player has a best strategy that, if played, the other could do nothing to prevent the outcome!
Not quite. Tic-tac-toe has the same properties, but there is no guarenteed way to win. You can guarentee a draw, if you are perfect.
-Brian
Yep, that's what I meant. Thanks for clarifying.
Buy it. Seriously. Even if it isn't stocked at your local CompUSA. That is assuming you want more games to come to linux...
-Brian
Ah, but these crimees are far less common than they were in say, oh, the middle ages. What else was going on in the middle ages you ask? Well for one there was no porn. And the church was the most powerful entity in the land...
-Brian
Wow... That would be a little awkward, wouldn't? Some 17 year-old kid comingot you door to deliver wet n' wild 7?
-Brian
Ugh....
Fuck Wallmart.
-Brian
Yeah... Hasbro sucks a giant rotten cock. We can thank them for the pathetic shell of a former gaming company that Sierra is too.
-Brian
Right, and my point is that we should not legislate etiquette.
So we should not let people drive cars because some of them drive drunk? We can't punish curteous cell phone users along with the retards. It will become socially unnacceptable to leave your cell phone on in theatres, classes, etc. and people will stop doing it.
-Brian
Wow, maybe CS at your school is a joke. Around here, CS gets computer architecture so you understand how computing hardware and software interact. What you don't get is electrical engineering. What you get as compensation is greater freedom to study what you're interested in, and more depth in advanced fields like AI, Graphics, Networks, etc...
-Brian
Heh... I think you are being fed a load. At the U of Wash (In the top 10 US CS&E schools) CE and CS people range from 45-75 first year out. CE people often take hardware design jobs and make on average 1 or 2K more than CS.
-Brian
Magnetite trails are created by organisms on earth. That's how we know they are formed by life. The reason they think these ones are special is that they believe they are older than life on earth.
-Brian
Fewer total people would have died if we had invaded. The rational for the bombing was the number of American lives it would cost to invade.
-Brian
I was curious about this. Are you absolutely sure? Did he actually cause the death of any American (or other) agents? -Brian
It takes just as much skill to write a program in C as it does to write a good sonnet in English.
Er... Really? I can write good programs and crappy Sonnets. Most people who can write good Sonnets can't even write a crappy program. I would even venture so far as to say that a large number of the people who can write good Sonnets would not even be able to write a crappy program if instructed on how to do so...
-Brian