It makes sense that it happened, though. Now that Sam Lantinga works for Valve, I'm imagine Valve considers SDL to be "their" technology for use on Linux systems.
On the other hand, if your gaming PC is connected to the living room TV (probably not a terribly common setup, I'll admit) and that TV is being used for something else, this could function like the Wii U gamepad's off-TV feature.
Aside from the control scheme and openess of software installation, there really isn't much difference.
Some of the biggest games on PC (Counter Strike: Global Offensive, DotA 2, League of Legends) are derivatives of games which started as mods for PC games. Games like Skyrim and Torchlight II have been greatly expanded by the modding communities. Most of the value of games like the new Shadowrun Returns will be provided by modders. Until consoles support modding communities, there will always be a significant difference between PC and consoles.
I would recommend reading some of the reviews. It looks like the streaming feature is great, if you have a high-end wireless router and are within one room's distance from that router.
Assuming an individual already owns and Android based phone, it would be much cheaper and sensible to just buy one of those Moga or Moga pro controller add-ons for emulators. If you're not going to take advantage of the streaming-from-PC features of the Shield, I can't see how it would be worth $300 to you.
Nope, sorry. The fsfe.org article suggests that attempts were made to resolve the issue with no success prior to Welte seeking legal action. FANTEC made their own bed, and now they get to lie in it.
I think the point he is trying to make is that there was never an order to bomb a village when it was known that it was filled with women and children, or that the point of the bombing was to kill said women and children.
Well he or she is trained and certified as a pilot, so they are still likely much more qualified to control a multi-million dollar piece of equipment than you, sorry.
That's because the closest analogy to a software engineer using a more abstracted language in the hardware world is the packaging of common circuitry. Or when hardware engineers design chips, do they actually model out the components of every single transistor?
Nope. What I do know is that unemployment rates for software developers in the US have been reported at about 2% for the last couple of years, and any of the developers I know which have had trouble finding jobs are not what I would consider "good" developers (anecdotal evidence, but I haven't seen anyone provide real data that suggests otherwise either).
I'd be interested in seeing if the introduction of shop classes to normal high school curriculum deflated the salaries of mechanical engineers. If it did, then I might find what you're suggesting more plausible. I'll have to see if I can find some data on that.
In languages such as Java, there is no analogue to a struct. Because of this, things like 'Beans' and Data Transfer Objects were invented, which are essentially just classes that hold properties and don't typically implement any interesting logic.
make sure every kid can program when they leave high school, so that you can pay entry-level programmers the same as gas station attendants
As though the skills required to be a software engineer as as easy to master as those required to be a gas station attendant. Your paranoia is baseless.
One advantage is that it makes it easier on you if in the future you realize that you need to do any sort of validation or other logic that's not directly related to the accessing or mutating of a property's value, but needs to happen every time that property is accessed or mutated. If you were already calling 'getValue()' whenever you wanted 'value', all you have to do is add the new logic to the 'getValue()' method. It also allows you to have a private scoped object property while still making the property accessible to outside classes. Once again, you might want to do this so that you can always ensure that a value being set as the value of the property is valid and sanitized (if the property were public, any other class could directly change its value without the guarantee of the new value being valid).
Well I could be wrong, but I believe SourceForge doesn't support private repositories. With Github, you can move a repository you own between public and private as you please (as long as you pay for the privilege of making a repo private). Github also seems to be oriented around developers more than it is around projects, as a result of being a 'social' tool.
Smokers didn't sue their local convenience stores where they bought their smokes, they sued the manufacturers of said tobacco products
What's even more bullshit, is that in this case, it is more like suing the company which built the truck used to haul the cigarettes from the factory to the convenience store. At least the convenience store made the conscious decision to sell cigarettes there. The truck company just built a damn truck, which happens to work on highways and is capable of moving cigarettes.
Or they could be browsing the internet on a PC. They could even buy a cheap tablet with wifi access to carry into their bathroom so they could read from more useful resources than an ad-filled magazine even while they relieve themselves. The reason that PC magazines died off is because they are an absolutely outdated medium, not because the people who would read them are now hipsters.
I still use only 4GB of RAM in both my work and home desktops. I do "normal" PC things like browse the web, listen to music, check email, and create documents. I also write software. Sometimes I do all of these things at the same time. Granted I'm typically using Linux, but I still never use any paged memory. When I want to play a game, I boot up Windows, and typically the game will be the only major piece of software running, so 4GB has still been enough for me. I had friends who were putting 12 to 16GB of RAM in a desktop three or four years ago. These guys don't even do any video editing or rendering, or anything that could seriously take advantage of that much memory.
In a year or two, I will probably upgrade. I imagine the introduction of new gaming consoles will start pushing game developers to start advancing again, and games will actually take advantage of better hardware.
Don't forget the explosion of book sales which will likely create additional profit for him (people like to buy books when the movie adaptation is being hyped up).
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Oh, interesting; I did not know that. Thanks for pointing it out instead of yelling at me for being lazy and not looking it up ;)
It makes sense that it happened, though. Now that Sam Lantinga works for Valve, I'm imagine Valve considers SDL to be "their" technology for use on Linux systems.
We see that here on slashdot all the time: "I only buy games from Steam Sales"
And slashdot is somehow representative of normal video game consumers? What's your point?
Obviously someone is purchasing those games at full price or nobody would be making PC games anymore.
On the other hand, if your gaming PC is connected to the living room TV (probably not a terribly common setup, I'll admit) and that TV is being used for something else, this could function like the Wii U gamepad's off-TV feature.
Aside from the control scheme and openess of software installation, there really isn't much difference.
Some of the biggest games on PC (Counter Strike: Global Offensive, DotA 2, League of Legends) are derivatives of games which started as mods for PC games. Games like Skyrim and Torchlight II have been greatly expanded by the modding communities. Most of the value of games like the new Shadowrun Returns will be provided by modders. Until consoles support modding communities, there will always be a significant difference between PC and consoles.
I can't wait for Facebook to be dethroned
Then take the first step and start using something else.
I would recommend reading some of the reviews. It looks like the streaming feature is great, if you have a high-end wireless router and are within one room's distance from that router.
Assuming an individual already owns and Android based phone, it would be much cheaper and sensible to just buy one of those Moga or Moga pro controller add-ons for emulators. If you're not going to take advantage of the streaming-from-PC features of the Shield, I can't see how it would be worth $300 to you.
Nope, sorry. The fsfe.org article suggests that attempts were made to resolve the issue with no success prior to Welte seeking legal action. FANTEC made their own bed, and now they get to lie in it.
I think the point he is trying to make is that there was never an order to bomb a village when it was known that it was filled with women and children, or that the point of the bombing was to kill said women and children.
Well he or she is trained and certified as a pilot, so they are still likely much more qualified to control a multi-million dollar piece of equipment than you, sorry.
Right now there still need to be a pilot controlling those drones.
That's because the closest analogy to a software engineer using a more abstracted language in the hardware world is the packaging of common circuitry. Or when hardware engineers design chips, do they actually model out the components of every single transistor?
Nope. What I do know is that unemployment rates for software developers in the US have been reported at about 2% for the last couple of years, and any of the developers I know which have had trouble finding jobs are not what I would consider "good" developers (anecdotal evidence, but I haven't seen anyone provide real data that suggests otherwise either).
I'd be interested in seeing if the introduction of shop classes to normal high school curriculum deflated the salaries of mechanical engineers. If it did, then I might find what you're suggesting more plausible. I'll have to see if I can find some data on that.
In languages such as Java, there is no analogue to a struct. Because of this, things like 'Beans' and Data Transfer Objects were invented, which are essentially just classes that hold properties and don't typically implement any interesting logic.
Where is this glut? All of the numbers I have seen (at least for the US) show an incredibly small percentage of software developers being unemployed.
make sure every kid can program when they leave high school, so that you can pay entry-level programmers the same as gas station attendants
As though the skills required to be a software engineer as as easy to master as those required to be a gas station attendant. Your paranoia is baseless.
One advantage is that it makes it easier on you if in the future you realize that you need to do any sort of validation or other logic that's not directly related to the accessing or mutating of a property's value, but needs to happen every time that property is accessed or mutated. If you were already calling 'getValue()' whenever you wanted 'value', all you have to do is add the new logic to the 'getValue()' method. It also allows you to have a private scoped object property while still making the property accessible to outside classes. Once again, you might want to do this so that you can always ensure that a value being set as the value of the property is valid and sanitized (if the property were public, any other class could directly change its value without the guarantee of the new value being valid).
Well I could be wrong, but I believe SourceForge doesn't support private repositories. With Github, you can move a repository you own between public and private as you please (as long as you pay for the privilege of making a repo private). Github also seems to be oriented around developers more than it is around projects, as a result of being a 'social' tool.
Smokers didn't sue their local convenience stores where they bought their smokes, they sued the manufacturers of said tobacco products
What's even more bullshit, is that in this case, it is more like suing the company which built the truck used to haul the cigarettes from the factory to the convenience store. At least the convenience store made the conscious decision to sell cigarettes there. The truck company just built a damn truck, which happens to work on highways and is capable of moving cigarettes.
Or they could be browsing the internet on a PC. They could even buy a cheap tablet with wifi access to carry into their bathroom so they could read from more useful resources than an ad-filled magazine even while they relieve themselves. The reason that PC magazines died off is because they are an absolutely outdated medium, not because the people who would read them are now hipsters.
I still use only 4GB of RAM in both my work and home desktops. I do "normal" PC things like browse the web, listen to music, check email, and create documents. I also write software. Sometimes I do all of these things at the same time. Granted I'm typically using Linux, but I still never use any paged memory. When I want to play a game, I boot up Windows, and typically the game will be the only major piece of software running, so 4GB has still been enough for me. I had friends who were putting 12 to 16GB of RAM in a desktop three or four years ago. These guys don't even do any video editing or rendering, or anything that could seriously take advantage of that much memory.
In a year or two, I will probably upgrade. I imagine the introduction of new gaming consoles will start pushing game developers to start advancing again, and games will actually take advantage of better hardware.
It depends. Is said sailor drunk during acceptable hours, such as the evening, or is it early in the morning?
Don't forget the explosion of book sales which will likely create additional profit for him (people like to buy books when the movie adaptation is being hyped up).