What Sony is doing is not illegal or even wrong, but in many people's minds it is simply poor business practice. If many consumers choose not to purchase a Vita due to it not having a desired feature, that is not illogical. People are essentially saying "Screw you Sony, I'm tired of buying new hardware from you that won't run my old software, when I can buy Nintendo hardware instead that continues to offer backwards-compatibility with no additional software fees."
Billionaires are the people who (in general) rose above their competition and found great success. Why wouldn't you want them to control schools? Does it really make more sense to have schools controlled by mediocre individuals?
Games are meant to be played. Watching a cutscene is not playing a game. As one of several metrics, I judge the quality of a game by its level of interactivity. If I am not controlling the story, even if it is as simple as making story decisions like in the Mass Effect and Witcher games, then I am only an observer of the story. In that case, movies and books are much more effective mediums for telling a story. The whole point of automated games is that the level of interactivity can be increased without the player needing to worry about the implementation (such as you would need to do in pen-and-paper RPGs like DnD or GURPS). This is precisely the reason why I don't enjoy JRPGs - to me they simply feel like a very tedious and drawn-out way to watch an anime.
Yes, particularly the females which are clearly shown in the video on his website. You're reading slashdot, "news for nerds." Why does making fun of other nerds make you feel cool?
This is why I totally don't GET France-bashing in the US over WW2, which shows not just a lack of common sense, but a complete ignorance of what happened (and the US role) in the war prior to Japan attacking Pearl Harbor.
One of the reasons people bash France's involvement in WW2 is that they built the Maginot Line along the French/German border and got flanked by the Nazis moving through Belgium. What is so ridiculous about this is that the German Army flanked the French Army by moving through Belgium in WW1 as well.
I'm guessing you didn't look at the list of achievements, particularly the "Don't Try This at Home" section. It has achievements for writing a 300 character-long line of code, or for having a method with 10 overloads.
I couldn't see myself purchasing a "smart" TV unless it offers something I cannot do with a normal TV + HTPC combo, as I doubt they will be competitive price-wise.
I wanted a physical copy of The Witcher 2, but ended up purchasing it on gog.com instead as it is a sister-company of the developer and I wanted to make sure more of my money went directly to them to support the lack of DRM and overall quality development they do.
As much friction as there can be between sysadmins and developers (devs not giving proper instructions, sysadmins not notifying us about "scheduled" server maintenance, the hassle of trying to get production logs...) I can still appreciate it that it's not my ass on the line when servers go down in the middle of the night. Thanks, and I hope you have time tonight to enjoy a beer!
I agree. I still use the motion controls for Zelda when aiming the bow and arrow or looking around, and I don't have any problem with retaining the 3D effects during this. I was also surprised by how much the 3D effect complimented the game. Once Star Fox and Kid Icarus come out, I think more people will start backing the 3DS.
Thanks for the explanation. My first thought upon reading this was "wait a second, didn't Pluto lose its status as a planet in part because it had not cleared its orbit?"
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Aren't you just assuming that this is happening? Isn't it possible that it attempts to run, and only displays that message if it fails?
I fall under the "young" category, and while there seem to be some advantages to it, I have the utmost respect for the elders in my workplace. I would like to think, however, that my youthful enthusiasm allows me to better absorb the knowledge and experience the gray-beards I work with are willing to share, so that next generation's "old programmers" will be better than the current one.
I'd bet that if I looked at your code, I would find nary a comment.
I call that "job security code," as in, "if nobody understands my code, nobody will fire me," and I find it fairly obnoxious. Obviously there are some things which are so basic that they don't need to be commented, or are self-documented through meaningful naming-conventions, but if I stumble on a 500+ line spaghetti-mess of a function with no documentation, I see red. It's not that I can't parse through the code and figure out what's going on, it's the fact that nobody should have to spend that long just to figure out what's happening in one function so they can trace an error.
How would you rate your code in terms of ease of maintenance? I'm not trying to say what you do is wrong, but I was under the assumption that many best-practice methods were there for maintenance purposes more than achieving functionality.
In my shop we do code reviews mainly so other developers know what you did, so if a problem pops up they're familiar with the changes you made. This also helps spread knowledge of the system around.
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What Sony is doing is not illegal or even wrong, but in many people's minds it is simply poor business practice. If many consumers choose not to purchase a Vita due to it not having a desired feature, that is not illogical. People are essentially saying "Screw you Sony, I'm tired of buying new hardware from you that won't run my old software, when I can buy Nintendo hardware instead that continues to offer backwards-compatibility with no additional software fees."
Billionaires are the people who (in general) rose above their competition and found great success. Why wouldn't you want them to control schools? Does it really make more sense to have schools controlled by mediocre individuals?
Games are meant to be played. Watching a cutscene is not playing a game. As one of several metrics, I judge the quality of a game by its level of interactivity. If I am not controlling the story, even if it is as simple as making story decisions like in the Mass Effect and Witcher games, then I am only an observer of the story. In that case, movies and books are much more effective mediums for telling a story. The whole point of automated games is that the level of interactivity can be increased without the player needing to worry about the implementation (such as you would need to do in pen-and-paper RPGs like DnD or GURPS). This is precisely the reason why I don't enjoy JRPGs - to me they simply feel like a very tedious and drawn-out way to watch an anime.
Yes, particularly the females which are clearly shown in the video on his website. You're reading slashdot, "news for nerds." Why does making fun of other nerds make you feel cool?
This is why I totally don't GET France-bashing in the US over WW2, which shows not just a lack of common sense, but a complete ignorance of what happened (and the US role) in the war prior to Japan attacking Pearl Harbor.
One of the reasons people bash France's involvement in WW2 is that they built the Maginot Line along the French/German border and got flanked by the Nazis moving through Belgium. What is so ridiculous about this is that the German Army flanked the French Army by moving through Belgium in WW1 as well.
This wont result in bad code.
I'm guessing you didn't look at the list of achievements, particularly the "Don't Try This at Home" section. It has achievements for writing a 300 character-long line of code, or for having a method with 10 overloads.
I couldn't see myself purchasing a "smart" TV unless it offers something I cannot do with a normal TV + HTPC combo, as I doubt they will be competitive price-wise.
For 3 months. Do you lack reading comprehension?
If your manager is constantly viewing you and what is on your screen in the office, I would hate to work under your management.
I wanted a physical copy of The Witcher 2, but ended up purchasing it on gog.com instead as it is a sister-company of the developer and I wanted to make sure more of my money went directly to them to support the lack of DRM and overall quality development they do.
While this is true and can be very attractive, there has to be someone with native code experience to write the virtual machines, right?
Hey, if you're wrong, what do you have to lose?
As much friction as there can be between sysadmins and developers (devs not giving proper instructions, sysadmins not notifying us about "scheduled" server maintenance, the hassle of trying to get production logs...) I can still appreciate it that it's not my ass on the line when servers go down in the middle of the night. Thanks, and I hope you have time tonight to enjoy a beer!
Of course you're welcome to your opinion, but yours is the only one I've heard criticizing Metroid Prime 3's controls.
I agree. I still use the motion controls for Zelda when aiming the bow and arrow or looking around, and I don't have any problem with retaining the 3D effects during this. I was also surprised by how much the 3D effect complimented the game. Once Star Fox and Kid Icarus come out, I think more people will start backing the 3DS.
Thanks for the explanation. My first thought upon reading this was "wait a second, didn't Pluto lose its status as a planet in part because it had not cleared its orbit?"
Aren't you just assuming that this is happening? Isn't it possible that it attempts to run, and only displays that message if it fails?
I fall under the "young" category, and while there seem to be some advantages to it, I have the utmost respect for the elders in my workplace. I would like to think, however, that my youthful enthusiasm allows me to better absorb the knowledge and experience the gray-beards I work with are willing to share, so that next generation's "old programmers" will be better than the current one.
Alright. I'm convinced that you really are just a troll and aren't actually expecting people to believe your nonsense.
Apparently I can't get to Google+ from work, which is stupid since I can get to Facebook. If I remember, I'll send you one when I get home tonight.
Oh, that's just genius. Why correct mistakes in otherwise functioning code when you can just increase the risk of introducing new errors?
I'd bet that if I looked at your code, I would find nary a comment.
I call that "job security code," as in, "if nobody understands my code, nobody will fire me," and I find it fairly obnoxious. Obviously there are some things which are so basic that they don't need to be commented, or are self-documented through meaningful naming-conventions, but if I stumble on a 500+ line spaghetti-mess of a function with no documentation, I see red. It's not that I can't parse through the code and figure out what's going on, it's the fact that nobody should have to spend that long just to figure out what's happening in one function so they can trace an error.
How would you rate your code in terms of ease of maintenance? I'm not trying to say what you do is wrong, but I was under the assumption that many best-practice methods were there for maintenance purposes more than achieving functionality. In my shop we do code reviews mainly so other developers know what you did, so if a problem pops up they're familiar with the changes you made. This also helps spread knowledge of the system around.
Grow a beard, that is masculine. Only women and children lack beards.
Really? Are you going to tell a Marine that he's feminine for not having a beard?
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