If more people doesn't equal more productivity then why isn't WoW coded by one neckbeard locked in a server closet?
WoW has too much tiny shit broken with it to only have 32 people working on it. They really need to hire some cheap programmer to start at the bottom of the bug list and work their way up. Hell if they were to simply give me the source and tell me to 'fix what I can' I guarantee I'd find and fix at least one annoying glitch per day.
They could also hire someone to simply copy every popular user add-on and make an 'official' Blizzard version. Someone being paid for their work would probably put a lot more thought and effort into speed optimization and usability, and simply being able to hard-code new features in the game would almost guarantee that the Blizzard version would be better. They've already done this with some of the most popular add-ons (like the new gear manager), but they've done so at an absolutely glacial pace. The gear manager was announced months before it came out, yet the add-on that came before it was modified to be able to save its sets using the new functionality in a matter of days.
I understand the difficulties of localization and quality control, but despite what you may have read in some book once more people does equal more productivity. If you hand a large project to one QC tester, they're more than likely not going to find everything wrong with it. Maybe the Norse god of quality control was reincarnated and hired at Blizzard, but I doubt that even they are perfect. This means that even after you've made your fixes and sent it back, it will probably return to you yet again with entirely new issues brought up that were there in the project since it arrived the first time. If this same project is handed to three QC testers, the chances of finding all the minor bugs goes up dramatically. This, in turn, decreases the amount of times that the project has to bounce back and forth between programming and QC.
It adds redundancy, yes, but when your bankroll is the size of Blizzard's I think you can manage to put the extra effort into making your product the best possible.
Being physically abused to assure that you can kill another human makes perfect sense, but sitting quietly in your home bothering no one makes you a pathetic excuse for a human?
You need to watch less movies (and maybe get out of your house some more).
Yeah it's like this 'internet' thing. WTF is the difference between sending an 'electronic mail' and good old paper mail for information transfers?! So silly.
"I'm going to teach my kids that we don't (shouldn't) go around in public waving our genitals (and breasts) in people's faces, and by extension we don't (shouldn't) let other people do the same thing."
"No need to buy an expensive gamer rig for full details"
Really? So you're telling me that playing WoW at 1600x1200 with the graphics tweaked beyond the control panel's max will look worse than the compressed video stream of their rendering (which more than likely will be throttled to a certain resolution or quality... if your ISP oversells bandwidth what makes you think GaiKai won't oversell processor time)?
You can link to a specific time in a youtube video using the URL. I don't remember exactly how, and I don't care enough to look it up for you. Just sayin'.
Go look up 'potential'. Right the fuck now. I'm not fucking kidding. Read it. Why do you refuse to learn what the fucking word means? I was able to succeed DESPITE my schooling. This is where that 'potential' word comes in.
As 'well documented' as your beloved Pygmalion effect is, I can't seem to find any studies that separated the students into different classes. So, not only does it not apply in this discussion, but it applies directly to the situation as it is currently. Teachers ALREADY have expectations of their students. They ALREADY review their students test scores and grade histories. The slower students are ALREADY being held back due to this effect. Separating them would actually improve the situation as students who were once near the bottom of their class will now be much closer to the top. This changes expectations, so according to you the children would benefit.
I don't know why you apparently hated the smart kids in your school so much or why you've decided to make it a personal vendetta to prove that they were all really dumb and only succeeded because of their 'labels', but it's fucking annoying. Stop it.
Being in an AP class doesn't help much when most of the teaching time is still devoted to 'the test', which covers basic concepts that the AP kids shouldn't need to worry about.
If a child is able to give their bare minimum throughout elementary school and middle school and they still manage to get top marks, then what do you think they're going to do once they reach high school? When they get a car, an active social life, and hobbies more involved than 'playing with dirt', where are they supposed to find the motivation sit still for 7 hours a day watching their peers struggle with concepts they mastered months before? Why do you expect kids to work hard for a piece of paper that says they're competent when it's obvious to themselves and anyone who knows them (and when the piece of paper doesn't guarantee competence in the slightest way)? Are you seriously suggesting that if you put two identical children in different schools (one with a competitive learning environment and challenging material, and one with mundane, trivial busywork) that they would each be equal after finishing? I don't think you understand what the word 'potential' means.
DEhumanizing? Are you suggesting that all humans are of the same level of intelligence? If calling dumb people dumb is 'dehumanizing' them, then you have some kind of strange, idealized definition of human. It's you here who's assuming that all true humans are smart. Nobody else is implying that unintelligent people are somehow less human.
In high school I was able to go to a different school for 'advanced' students during the second half of my school day. It was a great opportunity to learn, and gave me a taste of what a tiered schooling system might be like. In 11th grade I was able to take both AP Trigonometry and AP Physics (college level classes) in the same period, freeing up room in my schedule for other courses. It would have been perfect, except for the fact that the teachers were still forced to 'teach for the test', meaning that on top of my normal trig and physics classwork I got to do pages upon pages of simple algebra in preparation for a standardized test that I knew I had absolutely no chance of failing.
Most of it I didn't complete; instead I spent my time learning to code (which is now my occupation). No schools around here offered anything like a programming class, so I had to do it at home on my own time. At one point I had a 34 in the trigonometry class, despite getting 90s or above on all the tests (and having a B in the college-run portion of the dual-credit class); that is how heavily they weighted the busywork.
It's like they were actively trying to prevent me from going to college simply because I wouldn't submit to training for problems that I could already do in my head years before being tested on them. But of course, they had to keep it 'fair'. The other kids would complain if I was able to get by without doing busywork, even though it was obvious that they needed the practice while I didn't.
Your response will probably be something like, "You should suck it up and do the work. Everyone else has to," but that's a lie. Not everyone does have to 'do the busywork', IRL. A captain of a cruise ship sure as hell isn't the one polishing the rails and mopping up spills.
So why raise kids with an idealized version of life? Do you really want them to be able to graduate from college before they first realize that they aren't in fact able to be anything they want to be? Where's the dehumanizing aspect of saying, "Sorry, little Johnny, but you don't grasp these concepts yet. We're going to send you to a simpler school, but if you study hard and learn all you need to know then we'll move you up to the next level." Why is that unacceptable and dehumanizing when 10 years later they're just going to hear, "Sorry, Mr. Doe, you don't have the aptitude required for this position in our company. However, we can start you out as sales clerk, and if you show the right initiative and sufficient business acumen we'll consider you for manager."
A multilevel schooling system can be accomplished without denying anyone access to the education they desire. Sending them to a different school isn't denying them anything when they don't have the curiosity, desire, or intelligence to learn the higher concepts anyway. The schools could even have the same courses, but at different paces and with different teaching styles. The point isn't to tell kids they're stupid, but to make sure that their slower learning pace isn't interfering with the quicker kids.
What was the performance advantage supposed to be anyways? The main reason I wanted an SSD was to load my games as quickly as possible. Needing to load them from a spinning disk anyways kind of defeats the point of having the data on flash in the first place.
Even with regards to servers it would only help if your traffic was very 'bursty'. If your disk is constantly getting pounded then the actual spinning HDD is STILL going to be the bottleneck.
If it only helps me get data I already have, and can still only fully write data as fast as the final physical disk, then what's the point?
I think you'll find it difficult to locate a scientist who'd be willing to state that he has ruled out any possibility of self-reproducing patterns forming in the absence of water.
You fault him for using 'maybe' and 'likely' when those are exactly the words we should be using. What kind of moron speaks in absolutes about things uncertain? Do you have an alien buddy you're not telling us about feeding you facts? Protip: scientists ARE just guessing. Always. ESPECIALLY about anything outside our solar system.
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If more people doesn't equal more productivity then why isn't WoW coded by one neckbeard locked in a server closet?
WoW has too much tiny shit broken with it to only have 32 people working on it. They really need to hire some cheap programmer to start at the bottom of the bug list and work their way up. Hell if they were to simply give me the source and tell me to 'fix what I can' I guarantee I'd find and fix at least one annoying glitch per day.
They could also hire someone to simply copy every popular user add-on and make an 'official' Blizzard version. Someone being paid for their work would probably put a lot more thought and effort into speed optimization and usability, and simply being able to hard-code new features in the game would almost guarantee that the Blizzard version would be better. They've already done this with some of the most popular add-ons (like the new gear manager), but they've done so at an absolutely glacial pace. The gear manager was announced months before it came out, yet the add-on that came before it was modified to be able to save its sets using the new functionality in a matter of days.
I understand the difficulties of localization and quality control, but despite what you may have read in some book once more people does equal more productivity. If you hand a large project to one QC tester, they're more than likely not going to find everything wrong with it. Maybe the Norse god of quality control was reincarnated and hired at Blizzard, but I doubt that even they are perfect. This means that even after you've made your fixes and sent it back, it will probably return to you yet again with entirely new issues brought up that were there in the project since it arrived the first time. If this same project is handed to three QC testers, the chances of finding all the minor bugs goes up dramatically. This, in turn, decreases the amount of times that the project has to bounce back and forth between programming and QC.
It adds redundancy, yes, but when your bankroll is the size of Blizzard's I think you can manage to put the extra effort into making your product the best possible.
Also add in name changes ($10?), character re-customization ($20?), and server transfers ($25). Oh, and faction changes ($25?).
Genocide?
Bugs can't go under water. Duh.
Being physically abused to assure that you can kill another human makes perfect sense, but sitting quietly in your home bothering no one makes you a pathetic excuse for a human?
You need to watch less movies (and maybe get out of your house some more).
Epic gear means as much as a superbowl ring.
Purple pixels, shiny metal.
Yeah it's like this 'internet' thing. WTF is the difference between sending an 'electronic mail' and good old paper mail for information transfers?! So silly.
Just making sure your decisions were based in reality (they weren't).
Why not?
Why is it private, then? What other reason besides obscenity do we cover things up? What reason do you give your kids besides 'I told you so'?
"I'm going to teach my kids that we don't (shouldn't) go around in public waving our genitals (and breasts) in people's faces, and by extension we don't (shouldn't) let other people do the same thing."
What, exactly, do you think 'obscene' means?
Yeah we don't get many taxi drivers here.
"No need to buy an expensive gamer rig for full details"
Really? So you're telling me that playing WoW at 1600x1200 with the graphics tweaked beyond the control panel's max will look worse than the compressed video stream of their rendering (which more than likely will be throttled to a certain resolution or quality... if your ISP oversells bandwidth what makes you think GaiKai won't oversell processor time)?
You can link to a specific time in a youtube video using the URL. I don't remember exactly how, and I don't care enough to look it up for you. Just sayin'.
http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/importing-and-exporting-files-with-quicktime.html
Go look up 'potential'. Right the fuck now. I'm not fucking kidding. Read it. Why do you refuse to learn what the fucking word means? I was able to succeed DESPITE my schooling. This is where that 'potential' word comes in.
As 'well documented' as your beloved Pygmalion effect is, I can't seem to find any studies that separated the students into different classes. So, not only does it not apply in this discussion, but it applies directly to the situation as it is currently. Teachers ALREADY have expectations of their students. They ALREADY review their students test scores and grade histories. The slower students are ALREADY being held back due to this effect. Separating them would actually improve the situation as students who were once near the bottom of their class will now be much closer to the top. This changes expectations, so according to you the children would benefit.
I don't know why you apparently hated the smart kids in your school so much or why you've decided to make it a personal vendetta to prove that they were all really dumb and only succeeded because of their 'labels', but it's fucking annoying. Stop it.
I don't consider ANY pointless things to be useful, but maybe that's just me...
Being in an AP class doesn't help much when most of the teaching time is still devoted to 'the test', which covers basic concepts that the AP kids shouldn't need to worry about.
If a child is able to give their bare minimum throughout elementary school and middle school and they still manage to get top marks, then what do you think they're going to do once they reach high school? When they get a car, an active social life, and hobbies more involved than 'playing with dirt', where are they supposed to find the motivation sit still for 7 hours a day watching their peers struggle with concepts they mastered months before? Why do you expect kids to work hard for a piece of paper that says they're competent when it's obvious to themselves and anyone who knows them (and when the piece of paper doesn't guarantee competence in the slightest way)? Are you seriously suggesting that if you put two identical children in different schools (one with a competitive learning environment and challenging material, and one with mundane, trivial busywork) that they would each be equal after finishing? I don't think you understand what the word 'potential' means.
DEhumanizing? Are you suggesting that all humans are of the same level of intelligence? If calling dumb people dumb is 'dehumanizing' them, then you have some kind of strange, idealized definition of human. It's you here who's assuming that all true humans are smart. Nobody else is implying that unintelligent people are somehow less human.
In high school I was able to go to a different school for 'advanced' students during the second half of my school day. It was a great opportunity to learn, and gave me a taste of what a tiered schooling system might be like. In 11th grade I was able to take both AP Trigonometry and AP Physics (college level classes) in the same period, freeing up room in my schedule for other courses. It would have been perfect, except for the fact that the teachers were still forced to 'teach for the test', meaning that on top of my normal trig and physics classwork I got to do pages upon pages of simple algebra in preparation for a standardized test that I knew I had absolutely no chance of failing.
Most of it I didn't complete; instead I spent my time learning to code (which is now my occupation). No schools around here offered anything like a programming class, so I had to do it at home on my own time. At one point I had a 34 in the trigonometry class, despite getting 90s or above on all the tests (and having a B in the college-run portion of the dual-credit class); that is how heavily they weighted the busywork.
It's like they were actively trying to prevent me from going to college simply because I wouldn't submit to training for problems that I could already do in my head years before being tested on them. But of course, they had to keep it 'fair'. The other kids would complain if I was able to get by without doing busywork, even though it was obvious that they needed the practice while I didn't.
Your response will probably be something like, "You should suck it up and do the work. Everyone else has to," but that's a lie. Not everyone does have to 'do the busywork', IRL. A captain of a cruise ship sure as hell isn't the one polishing the rails and mopping up spills.
So why raise kids with an idealized version of life? Do you really want them to be able to graduate from college before they first realize that they aren't in fact able to be anything they want to be? Where's the dehumanizing aspect of saying, "Sorry, little Johnny, but you don't grasp these concepts yet. We're going to send you to a simpler school, but if you study hard and learn all you need to know then we'll move you up to the next level." Why is that unacceptable and dehumanizing when 10 years later they're just going to hear, "Sorry, Mr. Doe, you don't have the aptitude required for this position in our company. However, we can start you out as sales clerk, and if you show the right initiative and sufficient business acumen we'll consider you for manager."
A multilevel schooling system can be accomplished without denying anyone access to the education they desire. Sending them to a different school isn't denying them anything when they don't have the curiosity, desire, or intelligence to learn the higher concepts anyway. The schools could even have the same courses, but at different paces and with different teaching styles. The point isn't to tell kids they're stupid, but to make sure that their slower learning pace isn't interfering with the quicker kids.
Thanks for demonstrating to the class that you don't know what 'objective case' means. Let me make it simple for you. He : who :: him : whom.
'...him apparently believes...'
'...he apparently believes...'
What was the performance advantage supposed to be anyways? The main reason I wanted an SSD was to load my games as quickly as possible. Needing to load them from a spinning disk anyways kind of defeats the point of having the data on flash in the first place.
Even with regards to servers it would only help if your traffic was very 'bursty'. If your disk is constantly getting pounded then the actual spinning HDD is STILL going to be the bottleneck.
If it only helps me get data I already have, and can still only fully write data as fast as the final physical disk, then what's the point?
http://web.ku.edu/~edit/whom.html
Try fixing it for yourself.
Way to completely fucking miss the point.
You're a special kind of stupid.
I think you'll find it difficult to locate a scientist who'd be willing to state that he has ruled out any possibility of self-reproducing patterns forming in the absence of water.
You fault him for using 'maybe' and 'likely' when those are exactly the words we should be using. What kind of moron speaks in absolutes about things uncertain? Do you have an alien buddy you're not telling us about feeding you facts? Protip: scientists ARE just guessing. Always. ESPECIALLY about anything outside our solar system.