I think by then the lady with the 3 screaming kids would have been shot, the pilots forced to jump without parachute because of the rocky stormy weather, the stewardesses raped in the toilets and half the plane actively being recast in an episode of some epic Western hollywood production everyone suddenly remembers..
Remember, everyone has limits to his civilized upbringing. It's hard to get that across to people who like guns and who think themselves as shiny examples of western society. The truth is that they are all terribly and sorrowly mistaken on the day "an accident happened".
now, I have no idea I should whish for that day or not..
"Some people just can't handle things not going their way. "
"The problem isn't that Johnny plays counterstrike; it's that Johnny has a violent temper and lack of self control. "
Please! This whole thread reads like a bunch of idiots who once got bullied at school and need to take revenge. The studies are worthless because they are hunting the wrong question. Violence is a human quality. History tells us that much, and there weren't any Romans running around with Pacman hidden away in the sleeves of their tunics. Violence is not linked to video games any more than it is to reading horror stories or watching movies.
Any human, including yourself, can be brought to the point where he will act violently. It just depends on the right conditioning and environment. And yes, certain violent video games will definitely certainly augment his finger skills, train his nerves, improve tactical reasoning. That's why they were built.
What brings people to commit the act, though, is something completely different. I'll leave it to your wild imaginations what that something could be, but no video game ever gave any gamer the incentive to commit killing or violence. They'll definitely be better at it, but it's not the reason.
And, as someone else noted, there is a serious bias as to the sources of the material that was used to write the article. Mental note: Refreshingly balanced pieces require rigorous inspection.
Well, as opposed to C++, you can use the generic type List without actually having the source of it. This is different in C++ where every new template instance requires that you link with the original template definition. In Java, you can use release versions of distributed jars from 3rd parties and still use your own generic instantiations, which is a feature that is often overlooked.
I agree on the overloading issue, but I think using interface types to address the issue can help you in most of the cases.
I think overall C# does the better job on both accounts.
Neelie Kroes-Smit, the dutch lady who is European Commissioner, and thus responsible for all these European Fair Trade matters, was formerly married to Bram Peper (Dutch politician) and business man Willem Smit. Willem himself has a bad coke and white collar crime reputation hanging around him. At least 2 people that were doing business with him were shot on 2 separate occasions in clear daylight. Neelie Kroes, now divorced, was once also the president of a dutch high-class profiled Business University. That presidency is now taken up by the former Commissioner on fair trade, Karel Van Miert.
It's all fucked up politics and crime. These people are easily influenced, and I think the EU is being forced into games by many-a-lobby. The result is that MS is not going to go down alone, apparently.
For the record, I am not a MS or Apple or Mac fan. It pains me to see Europe play these corporate games. Yes, they became tools.
The one who posed the relevance question is actually asking 2 questions. One about relevancy in understanding and capability of programmers in general, and one about usage in the real world. I guess both are, to some extend, relevant.
Basically - and this coming from one of the bastards that "make you study it in one of your college courses" - you need to have at least some understanding of how a CPU works when you call yourself a proficient programmer. If you never 'got it', it means you don't understand what's going on. You may think you understand frameworks like.NET and J2EE, but you really don't. And when things go wrong, you will wonder why, and you will think it's all magically gone wrong somehow.
If you however know what is going on on the lowest level, you will know where to look, what to expect, and how to solve and issue. You will have more confidence, make planning a more accurate game, and basically be a better asset to your project.
It makes a huge difference. The people that don't get it right, will probably never want to. It's not hard, it's just a different way of thinking about constructing programs, and it requires a little more work.
Usage relevancy is already mentioned in parent post, so +1.
.., the image just needs a little red and black and some old celtic symbols to complete.
I think your record store, as hard as it may sound, is simply OBSOLETE. The people that flock to your store to buy christian family music are most certainly NOT the people pirating cd's, and if they do, they go to hell for it, so no worries.
The digital age is busy inventing new virtual worlds, mapping genomes, mapping memory, building bio robots. Everything that is in between that human wish for eternity and today will be obsolete, and the industry that makes most of it's profit from being "in the way" is the RIAA controlled record industry. The right to own or listen to music is not owned by a corporation, it is a human capacity, and it will evolve. I would seriously consider another way of making a living if I were you.
You're not wrong, assuming I have one point of reference. However, I never let it bang anywhere, I just used it a lot. And during that short period of time the battery did very strange things, it skipped at times, the database would get corrupt.. after a 3 week period of strangeness it finally gave up alltogether. I used it not just for music but also as a portable disc, so I also lost quite a bit of data on that device. Obviously it is probably a disc problem and I will take it apart to see if something can be salvaged, but I doubt it.
So it's not one single point of reference, it is an experience that is tasted sour for many weeks, with ups and downs on a device I that should have left QA as a dependable consumer product. It did not, so I don't want to risk money again. But obviously I'm asking too much here..
The article names exactly those issues that you will find in every game development process, not just FF12's. I can imagine that the number of people working on this specific game is much higher than in other productions, and probably makes problems in communication and verification much more prominent. But as far as the numbers in TFA are concerned, they don't seem to be any different than standard.
Even for the simplest game, a developer will seek to develop on the target machine, and running on the target output, which is the TV. The huge demand for content is not just a FF12 feat., you will find it in every kind of game. Even the timespan of other games is not so much different. Take e.g. Unreal3's based games.. or HalfLife..
I think Mr. Lee should not have gone to the GDC, because his review article is full of fan-boy drool and not much else.. I don't know why this was even posted on/.
Eh, captain, I'm seeing passports flying again, are you ABSOLUTELY sure we're not about to crash into a tower?
I had an iPod. It costed 400 euro's and it lasted about 1 year, and it is probably the first and last Apple thing I ever bought (apart from that AppleII that is sitting in the storage room).
DoD is part of the internet legacy, and DoD served a cause that is one of the large reasons why FSF and OSS have been able to find breathing space in the minds of many. I don't say that many of the actions were not illegal, but I do say that these actions have contributed to a better educated and most of all much more justified software/service ecosystem.
I think the fines and the punishments are seriously out of touch with what real crime is, where people get hurt or violated.
Belgium is much smaller than than China, but the way they can have themselves delisted from Google is waaaaaaaay cheaper!
All jokes aside, the real issue here is whether a technical option to opt out of a certain practice (like using a robots.txt) is sufficient to avoid lawsuits. In this case it clearly is not, so I'm wondering if anyone who screws up his robots.txt can put down a claim against Google just like that? Get-rich-quick scheme or grey zone in some Belgian lawyer's head?
Speaking as a Belgian, the issue is serisouly blown out of reasonable proportion, and only the french speaking news-papers can think of such foolishness. But even though Google is supposed to be the "nice" company, delisting from big brother's great caches somehow also has a happy ring to it..
One wonders if the harassment of people who are not breaking US law in their own jurisdiction when they come to the US will have a chilling effect on technology in the USA. Certainly, some very smart people would be very stupid to visit here...
SCEE Europe sucks majorly when it comes to living up to signed commitments in the Game biz. You'd be surprised about how efficiently they can screw things up.
The only complex thing about logistics is getting it from A to B. What makes Europe complex are the variety of languages and jurisdictions. That's still called localization.
The real reason why Europe is left behind every time is because Europeans are more critical and don't jump any wagons like the Japanese and US markets.
If Sony would launch first in Europe and at that price, they could as well write off their whole business plan.
We've seen it with every ban in existance. It is either impossible or inhuman to exercise orrectly, and it never kills what it intends to ban. Instead the world evolves and the ban is ridiculed, along with those supporting it. Why? Because it is an artificial attempt to lead people into streets they want to break out of. And eventually they do.
This is of course no argument for/against the reasoning behind the ban. I'm all for more educational and more natural games that do not involve sex and gore, but I also want to give sex and gore it's rightfull place in our human existance. I think sex is educational, as it tells something about the boundaries of our perversities. I think gore is eductional, as it tells something about the boundaries of our fears. I think young people are looking for those boundaries and eventually, with our without help of their parents, will discover those in some way. Trying to hold these things back from them is keeping them from maturity in those fields. Declaring a ban is probably more distubing than anything else.
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Dude. It's Donkey Kong!
I think he gave up after 50.000, according to TFA.
I mean, everyone who gives up after 50.000 at that game MUST be a GIGANTIC *loser*.
shrug.
I think by then the lady with the 3 screaming kids would have been shot, the pilots forced to jump without parachute because of the rocky stormy weather, the stewardesses raped in the toilets and half the plane actively being recast in an episode of some epic Western hollywood production everyone suddenly remembers..
Remember, everyone has limits to his civilized upbringing. It's hard to get that across to people who like guns and who think themselves as shiny examples of western society. The truth is that they are all terribly and sorrowly mistaken on the day "an accident happened".
now, I have no idea I should whish for that day or not..
I just love it how almost every world "news" (ahum) item is appended with..
"In the US, this happened a long long time ago.."
You have no idea how hard we are laughing at the other end of the pond, really.
n0 phn
I, for one, think we should be welcoming the Thetans to our culture and planet.
Hail Thetans!
UT Forever.
"Some people just can't handle things not going their way. "
"The problem isn't that Johnny plays counterstrike; it's that Johnny has a violent temper and lack of self control. "
Please! This whole thread reads like a bunch of idiots who once got bullied at school and need to take revenge. The studies are worthless because they are hunting the wrong question. Violence is a human quality. History tells us that much, and there weren't any Romans running around with Pacman hidden away in the sleeves of their tunics. Violence is not linked to video games any more than it is to reading horror stories or watching movies.
Any human, including yourself, can be brought to the point where he will act violently. It just depends on the right conditioning and environment. And yes, certain violent video games will definitely certainly augment his finger skills, train his nerves, improve tactical reasoning. That's why they were built.
What brings people to commit the act, though, is something completely different. I'll leave it to your wild imaginations what that something could be, but no video game ever gave any gamer the incentive to commit killing or violence. They'll definitely be better at it, but it's not the reason.
And, as someone else noted, there is a serious bias as to the sources of the material that was used to write the article. Mental note: Refreshingly balanced pieces require rigorous inspection.
Well, as opposed to C++, you can use the generic type List without actually having the source of it. This is different in C++ where every new template instance requires that you link with the original template definition. In Java, you can use release versions of distributed jars from 3rd parties and still use your own generic instantiations, which is a feature that is often overlooked.
I agree on the overloading issue, but I think using interface types to address the issue can help you in most of the cases.
I think overall C# does the better job on both accounts.
Neelie Kroes-Smit, the dutch lady who is European Commissioner, and thus responsible for all these European Fair Trade matters, was formerly married to Bram Peper (Dutch politician) and business man Willem Smit. Willem himself has a bad coke and white collar crime reputation hanging around him. At least 2 people that were doing business with him were shot on 2 separate occasions in clear daylight. Neelie Kroes, now divorced, was once also the president of a dutch high-class profiled Business University. That presidency is now taken up by the former Commissioner on fair trade, Karel Van Miert.
It's all fucked up politics and crime. These people are easily influenced, and I think the EU is being forced into games by many-a-lobby. The result is that MS is not going to go down alone, apparently.
For the record, I am not a MS or Apple or Mac fan. It pains me to see Europe play these corporate games. Yes, they became tools.
If *you* were an alien, would you build a pyramid?
Ok, you probably would, don't ya?
The one who posed the relevance question is actually asking 2 questions. One about relevancy in understanding and capability of programmers in general, and one about usage in the real world. I guess both are, to some extend, relevant.
Basically - and this coming from one of the bastards that "make you study it in one of your college courses" - you need to have at least some understanding of how a CPU works when you call yourself a proficient programmer. If you never 'got it', it means you don't understand what's going on. You may think you understand frameworks like
If you however know what is going on on the lowest level, you will know where to look, what to expect, and how to solve and issue. You will have more confidence, make planning a more accurate game, and basically be a better asset to your project.
It makes a huge difference. The people that don't get it right, will probably never want to. It's not hard, it's just a different way of thinking about constructing programs, and it requires a little more work.
Usage relevancy is already mentioned in parent post, so +1.
.., the image just needs a little red and black and some old celtic symbols to complete.
I think your record store, as hard as it may sound, is simply OBSOLETE. The people that flock to your store to buy christian family music are most certainly NOT the people pirating cd's, and if they do, they go to hell for it, so no worries.
The digital age is busy inventing new virtual worlds, mapping genomes, mapping memory, building bio robots. Everything that is in between that human wish for eternity and today will be obsolete, and the industry that makes most of it's profit from being "in the way" is the RIAA controlled record industry. The right to own or listen to music is not owned by a corporation, it is a human capacity, and it will evolve. I would seriously consider another way of making a living if I were you.
You're not wrong, assuming I have one point of reference. However, I never let it bang anywhere, I just used it a lot. And during that short period of time the battery did very strange things, it skipped at times, the database would get corrupt.. after a 3 week period of strangeness it finally gave up alltogether. I used it not just for music but also as a portable disc, so I also lost quite a bit of data on that device. Obviously it is probably a disc problem and I will take it apart to see if something can be salvaged, but I doubt it.
So it's not one single point of reference, it is an experience that is tasted sour for many weeks, with ups and downs on a device I that should have left QA as a dependable consumer product. It did not, so I don't want to risk money again. But obviously I'm asking too much here..
The article names exactly those issues that you will find in every game development process, not just FF12's. I can imagine that the number of people working on this specific game is much higher than in other productions, and probably makes problems in communication and verification much more prominent. But as far as the numbers in TFA are concerned, they don't seem to be any different than standard.
/.
Even for the simplest game, a developer will seek to develop on the target machine, and running on the target output, which is the TV. The huge demand for content is not just a FF12 feat., you will find it in every kind of game. Even the timespan of other games is not so much different. Take e.g. Unreal3's based games.. or HalfLife..
I think Mr. Lee should not have gone to the GDC, because his review article is full of fan-boy drool and not much else.. I don't know why this was even posted on
Eh, captain, I'm seeing passports flying again, are you ABSOLUTELY sure we're not about to crash into a tower?
I had an iPod. It costed 400 euro's and it lasted about 1 year, and it is probably the first and last Apple thing I ever bought (apart from that AppleII that is sitting in the storage room).
DoD is part of the internet legacy, and DoD served a cause that is one of the large reasons why FSF and OSS have been able to find breathing space in the minds of many. I don't say that many of the actions were not illegal, but I do say that these actions have contributed to a better educated and most of all much more justified software/service ecosystem.
I think the fines and the punishments are seriously out of touch with what real crime is, where people get hurt or violated.
Belgium is much smaller than than China, but the way they can have themselves delisted from Google is waaaaaaaay cheaper!
All jokes aside, the real issue here is whether a technical option to opt out of a certain practice (like using a robots.txt) is sufficient to avoid lawsuits. In this case it clearly is not, so I'm wondering if anyone who screws up his robots.txt can put down a claim against Google just like that? Get-rich-quick scheme or grey zone in some Belgian lawyer's head?
Speaking as a Belgian, the issue is serisouly blown out of reasonable proportion, and only the french speaking news-papers can think of such foolishness. But even though Google is supposed to be the "nice" company, delisting from big brother's great caches somehow also has a happy ring to it..
One wonders if the harassment of people who are not breaking US law in their own jurisdiction when they come to the US will have a chilling effect on technology in the USA. Certainly, some very smart people would be very stupid to visit here...
I'll just assume you meant to write "there".
I can guarantee you, not just to the Brits.
SCEE Europe sucks majorly when it comes to living up to signed commitments in the Game biz. You'd be surprised about how efficiently they can screw things up.
My point was that launching in Europe is not "logistically too complex" if you are called Sony, MS and even Nintendo.
Both MS and Nintendo did not release first in Europe, though.
The only complex thing about logistics is getting it from A to B. What makes Europe complex are the variety of languages and jurisdictions. That's still called localization.
The real reason why Europe is left behind every time is because Europeans are more critical and don't jump any wagons like the Japanese and US markets.
If Sony would launch first in Europe and at that price, they could as well write off their whole business plan.
just my 0.0248 eurocents.
We've seen it with every ban in existance. It is either impossible or inhuman to exercise orrectly, and it never kills what it intends to ban. Instead the world evolves and the ban is ridiculed, along with those supporting it. Why? Because it is an artificial attempt to lead people into streets they want to break out of. And eventually they do.
This is of course no argument for/against the reasoning behind the ban. I'm all for more educational and more natural games that do not involve sex and gore, but I also want to give sex and gore it's rightfull place in our human existance. I think sex is educational, as it tells something about the boundaries of our perversities. I think gore is eductional, as it tells something about the boundaries of our fears. I think young people are looking for those boundaries and eventually, with our without help of their parents, will discover those in some way. Trying to hold these things back from them is keeping them from maturity in those fields. Declaring a ban is probably more distubing than anything else.
I could think of a few reasons why they were "mad" at Unix:
HP, Sun, DEC, SiliconGraphics, IBM,..
2 down, 2 in the pocket, 1 to go..