I don't mean to pick on you, but you bring some ideas to mind.
Newbies, especially to new operating system, are going to be scared. Afraid of the commandline, afraid of all the new information presented on the desktop, and afraid of all the error messages that can occur.
Some people need hand-holding at first. These people aren't coders with the instinct to check and read doc, and most doc isn't well written. Also, most newbies aren't the greatest computer people in general. They may not know where to look, or even know what topic to search for. That's where IRC comes in. People need hand holding and IRC people should help them.
If you feel the way that you do, and don't wish to offer hand holding, that's fine. Stay out of the IRC. I'm not trying to make you out to be a jerk. The Open Source community commends you on using linux, and you pay back the community with an open source project of your own. That's great. You are helping the growth of Linux.
We aren't all IRC people (I'm not, myself, honestly). Those that are, should help the newbies, those that aren't shouldn't condemn them.
And how about we all try a new accronym, PCTM (Please Check The Manual). Its more polite.
The greatest point he makes is that, although there are plenty of gurus willing to help newbies with simple questions, there are even more elitests that will either flame your question or give you a "RTFM!"
I say, if you are friendly and willing to help newbies, answer their questions. If you want to flame, or send a RTFM, stay silent. If they don't get an answer, they'll eventually look their, anyway.
Did a google search. Came up with nuttin. This article is bogus.
Becoming a big industry is a double edged sword.
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Gaming is a big industry! Yay! Developers get money and we get great games, right?
Not really.
Big business is a double edged sword. Game publishers will only fund games that they know will make money. So instead of a great new game, you get a clone of the current best sellers. Innovation gets the boot in favor of the same games with prettier graphics.
The only people that can really bring out innovation are major game gurus like the incredible Warren Spector, or Sid Meiers. The best chance for you to bring out innovation is to make a mod of a current game on your own time, and hope you can get enough attention for a publisher to take a chance on one of your ideas.
This is what is currently bugging me about the video game industry... FPS aren't doing it anymore. We need FPS/RPGs like Deus Ex. FPS with a MAJOR TWIST like the Thief series. Deathmatch is dull, CapTheFlag has been done everywhere. We need a new style of online gaming for FPS. I ahven't seen DoomIII, yet, only heard about it. What I've heard from E3 is that its REALLY SWEET graphics, but they only went around and shot one or two enemies. Booooring.
Innovation is what this industry needs. How do we get it??
I find a lot of Catholic belief particularly offensive, such as their medieval attitudes towards science, their anti-contraceptive stance and their denial of female reproductive rights
Lets look at that statement. Troll folks. Doesn't get much clearer than this. Please moderate it as such.
Because they are both time restrictive. If you want a game with great innovation, you need to buy a graphic engine and work solely on the innovation. If you want pretty graphics, you spend a ton of time on the engine, and little on the game.
If you do both, either your innovation or your graphics will be outdated by the time you finish.
a solid dual GPU solution would surely rock the industry to massive proportions!
Which industry would that be? The gaming industry is slowing down as far as graphics go. Mark my words, there is going to be a shift soon from graphic intensive to gameplay innovation. People don't want games to be any prettier (or don't notice much of a difference). Notice how the mod community is getting bigger and better? Its cause they take the graphics engines and add innovation.
I'm rambling, but I think that these new video cards aren't going to be this big explosion that they were in the past. Sure they are big and powerful, but people aren't going to fork over the cash to get this one when they can get a good GeForce2 that can play their games just as well.
Seriously, though. I used to work in a company that wrote testing software. Regression tests are tests that you know work (and tests that fail when they are supposed to). For example: A few regression tests for a calculator would be to run a few additions, multiplications, etc, and ensure the answer is correct. Divide by zero and ensure the calculator fails the calculation (friendly fail).
When you make the next version of the software, you run said tests against the new system to make sure what you just added/modified didn't break the stuff that already worked.
Yeah, they are industry norm, especially on sellable products.
There are braile readers for blind to read ASCII chars off the screen, right? Well, just plug that reader into text-mode quake, and Blammo. They're playing quake.
Now, my question. How are they gonna aim? They're going to NEED some type of aim-bot script. You KNOW how players feel about those...
Don't think of it as having to change your design for 5% of the people. Think of it a designing to gain 5% more customers.
Now tell this to jamie to fix the page-widening-bugs that plague slashdot. And change 5% to the real number of IE users (I'd really like to see real stats on who uses what browser to view/.).
OK, I had 2 score:5 questions, but, about 3 days after the interview article was posted (it was off the "older stuff" block), both mine get modded down once (overrated, of course), so now my questions don't get answered?
Is there a way to prevent this?
What happens when trolls wait and upmod something you don't want to ask the interviewer?
Shouldn't the moderations stop for interviews after it leaves the frontpage? Or was this an editor moderation??
Lets not forget the new EJB2.0. Lots of cool stuff in there to play with (like new remote exceptions that embed the nested exception, and you can retrive the nested exception).
Java forces you to make each file a different object. Then comes organizing all your files into packages. For this, we use patterns (like model-view-controller pattern). The higher level after patterns is application specific.
C# is so closely related to Java, that there is no need for J#. MS has already started up marketing to get Java developers to try C#. I am a Java developer, and if I was forced to use a.NET language, I'd chose C#. J# just seems like a redundant language. It makes no sense.
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People run MAME and NES Emulators (even Atari Emulators). Graphics do *NOT* define the game!
Take Doom3 for example. Sure it looks pretty, but if its just another FPS DM game, no one will enjoy it. Its all about gameplay and innovation. These wireless games could become very popular as long as they have good gameplay and innovate the game for the new platform.
I hope this sparks gameplay and innovation on all platforms...
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I don't mean to pick on you, but you bring some ideas to mind.
Newbies, especially to new operating system, are going to be scared. Afraid of the commandline, afraid of all the new information presented on the desktop, and afraid of all the error messages that can occur.
Some people need hand-holding at first. These people aren't coders with the instinct to check and read doc, and most doc isn't well written. Also, most newbies aren't the greatest computer people in general. They may not know where to look, or even know what topic to search for. That's where IRC comes in. People need hand holding and IRC people should help them.
If you feel the way that you do, and don't wish to offer hand holding, that's fine. Stay out of the IRC. I'm not trying to make you out to be a jerk. The Open Source community commends you on using linux, and you pay back the community with an open source project of your own. That's great. You are helping the growth of Linux.
We aren't all IRC people (I'm not, myself, honestly). Those that are, should help the newbies, those that aren't shouldn't condemn them.
And how about we all try a new accronym, PCTM (Please Check The Manual). Its more polite.
XP has tab completions.
The greatest point he makes is that, although there are plenty of gurus willing to help newbies with simple questions, there are even more elitests that will either flame your question or give you a "RTFM!"
I say, if you are friendly and willing to help newbies, answer their questions. If you want to flame, or send a RTFM, stay silent. If they don't get an answer, they'll eventually look their, anyway.
Elitests are the biggest weakness of Linux.
Some of his points are wrong, but it's a reasonable article.
/. has posted this article. I'm impressed by the maturity of the staff to do so.
Isn't the first step denial??
I'm joking, I'm joking.
Actually, I'm surprised
Now everyone else be mature and comment instead of flame, k?
Did a google search. Came up with nuttin. This article is bogus.
Gaming is a big industry! Yay! Developers get money and we get great games, right?
Not really.
Big business is a double edged sword. Game publishers will only fund games that they know will make money. So instead of a great new game, you get a clone of the current best sellers. Innovation gets the boot in favor of the same games with prettier graphics.
The only people that can really bring out innovation are major game gurus like the incredible Warren Spector, or Sid Meiers. The best chance for you to bring out innovation is to make a mod of a current game on your own time, and hope you can get enough attention for a publisher to take a chance on one of your ideas.
This is what is currently bugging me about the video game industry... FPS aren't doing it anymore. We need FPS/RPGs like Deus Ex. FPS with a MAJOR TWIST like the Thief series. Deathmatch is dull, CapTheFlag has been done everywhere. We need a new style of online gaming for FPS. I ahven't seen DoomIII, yet, only heard about it. What I've heard from E3 is that its REALLY SWEET graphics, but they only went around and shot one or two enemies. Booooring.
Innovation is what this industry needs. How do we get it??
I find a lot of Catholic belief particularly offensive, such as their medieval attitudes towards science, their anti-contraceptive stance and their denial of female reproductive rights
Lets look at that statement. Troll folks. Doesn't get much clearer than this. Please moderate it as such.
All AA is is UT mod. Is their a client port of UT for linux? If so, then a client port isn't out of the picture. If not, then you are SOL.
WC3 is a great example of placing graphics and not modifying gameplay.
Argue all you want, its still your standard RTS.
Favorite quote: "People will start trusting the system now that it's linked to credit cards." Sure.
Before we start railing MS about bugs, let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
Anywho, its not the hacking to get the password I'm worried about. Most people don't know how to make a good password, and most are easily guessable.
Because they are both time restrictive. If you want a game with great innovation, you need to buy a graphic engine and work solely on the innovation. If you want pretty graphics, you spend a ton of time on the engine, and little on the game.
If you do both, either your innovation or your graphics will be outdated by the time you finish.
a solid dual GPU solution would surely rock the industry to massive proportions!
Which industry would that be? The gaming industry is slowing down as far as graphics go. Mark my words, there is going to be a shift soon from graphic intensive to gameplay innovation. People don't want games to be any prettier (or don't notice much of a difference). Notice how the mod community is getting bigger and better? Its cause they take the graphics engines and add innovation.
I'm rambling, but I think that these new video cards aren't going to be this big explosion that they were in the past. Sure they are big and powerful, but people aren't going to fork over the cash to get this one when they can get a good GeForce2 that can play their games just as well.
I agree with this post.
Seriously, though. I used to work in a company that wrote testing software. Regression tests are tests that you know work (and tests that fail when they are supposed to).
For example: A few regression tests for a calculator would be to run a few additions, multiplications, etc, and ensure the answer is correct. Divide by zero and ensure the calculator fails the calculation (friendly fail).
When you make the next version of the software, you run said tests against the new system to make sure what you just added/modified didn't break the stuff that already worked.
Yeah, they are industry norm, especially on sellable products.
There are braile readers for blind to read ASCII chars off the screen, right? Well, just plug that reader into text-mode quake, and Blammo. They're playing quake.
Now, my question. How are they gonna aim? They're going to NEED some type of aim-bot script. You KNOW how players feel about those...
Don't think of it as having to change your design for 5% of the people. Think of it a designing to gain 5% more customers.
/.).
Now tell this to jamie to fix the page-widening-bugs that plague slashdot. And change 5% to the real number of IE users (I'd really like to see real stats on who uses what browser to view
yeah, john wayne was, but I forgot which movie.
..."Kill 'em all and let god sort'em out"
BTW - Anyone that says "I did this for a living" is a blatant troll. Don't fall for it.
metamod doesn't work with over/underrated mods. But I've already had that arguement, and Taco doesn't seem to care.
OK, I had 2 score:5 questions, but, about 3 days after the interview article was posted (it was off the "older stuff" block), both mine get modded down once (overrated, of course), so now my questions don't get answered?
Is there a way to prevent this?
What happens when trolls wait and upmod something you don't want to ask the interviewer?
Shouldn't the moderations stop for interviews after it leaves the frontpage? Or was this an editor moderation??
Plus regexp in 1.4 makes it more powerful.
Lets not forget the new EJB2.0. Lots of cool stuff in there to play with (like new remote exceptions that embed the nested exception, and you can retrive the nested exception).
... interesting analogy. Made me laugh ;-)
I think that you find some webservices projects for internal systems, especially in the J2EE world. But not much externally.
bah, shoulda said "each object into a different file". Its been one of "those" kinda days... sorry.
Java forces you to make each file a different object. Then comes organizing all your files into packages. For this, we use patterns (like model-view-controller pattern). The higher level after patterns is application specific.
Ahh, the joys of OOP...
C# is so closely related to Java, that there is no need for J#. MS has already started up marketing to get Java developers to try C#. I am a Java developer, and if I was forced to use a .NET language, I'd chose C#. J# just seems like a redundant language. It makes no sense.
People run MAME and NES Emulators (even Atari Emulators). Graphics do *NOT* define the game!
Take Doom3 for example. Sure it looks pretty, but if its just another FPS DM game, no one will enjoy it. Its all about gameplay and innovation. These wireless games could become very popular as long as they have good gameplay and innovate the game for the new platform.
I hope this sparks gameplay and innovation on all platforms...