Because the Germans at VW and the American regulators are all a bunch of ***** *****.
Actually, you're at great personal risk in one of these on roads populated with mobile-phone-yakking motorists in pickup trucks and SUVs (not that even a smart couldn't flatten you.) Use of a mobile phone while driving should be treated with the same severity as drunk driving.
Despite what some people will assert, it's due to weak government.
For years we saw these stupid signs along highways, listing Metric and English speed limits and then they were quietly replaced with English ones only. Rather than just push people to accept and get the pain over with (retiring that stupid old system of weights and measures) the government caved to the moronic side of America.
If you want to see some creators that are going different places check out places like Armor Games.They are usually small flash games that you play for an hour and forget but there are some gems as well. Boxhead wars is great as are the bubble series. There might be 20 crap games but there is usually 20 cool games and 60 games that are just repeats of current themes.
Too cool.
This is the way the video game industry started to enter the home, small teams, simple concepts, achievable in a small time span and on a french fry budget. If one becomes a massive hit, well done to the developer.
Let students unleash their own creativity, without trying to mimic the failures of the past and present under some kind of pressure to deliver.
My nephew is in a game design program and I can't stress enough how important it is to him to not get hung up on art or sound, but focus on fun game play (besides, doing that laborious art and sound is for minions.)
it will make your metrics problem just grow even more.
deus ex is nice, but if you had an idea about how to do a block building game in 1989 why didn't you make it? we dreamt of a game like that as kids, in 1989 - of course w had no idea how it could have been done well on 8mhz 640kb ega crapper. a lego destruction derby game would have been awesome.
Some of the most enjoyable games I've ever played were on 8 or 16 bit systems. CPU, memory and clockspeed are poor yardsticks for game quality of play.
Great, so they can be scooped up by EA and churn out shit like Madden 2013: You Bought it Again.
-- Ethanol-fueled
That's only half the problem.
The problem of game designers learning from current executives is the other half. Honestly, if game companies are only churning out rehash after rehash and unwilling to take risks on new ideas (sounds a lot like Hollywood, doesn't it?) what could you learn, other than what creates failure?
I spent the weekend analyzing Despicable Me and Despicable Me 2, what made these films fresh and funny where so many with so much to offer (great art, great 3D, etc.) flop like the Lone Ranger - easy, look where Pierre Coffin was schooled - GOBELINS, l'école de l'image, spend some time looking through the galleries at student projects, there's a lot of fresh creativity on display there.
What made a standard (from the 1980s) game format like Angry Birds succeed was in taking a risk, simple graphics and fun game play - a formula which works time and again, but it succeeded wildly where other game developers are focusing on cramming too much of everything into a game and leaving the fun to suffer.
An academy with past designers, who were very successful in their day, before they burned out or were put on a treadmill at EA , would work well.
Even the manual acknowledges it is bad practice and includes the XKCD comic
There are so many languages that try to hide bad programmers. Give me a PHP programmer and his code and I can tell you if he's worth anything, The language lets you code like an idiot. Which is great, because then I can either not hire you or pay you accordingly if I think you have potential.
GOTO is not a part of PHP so you can use it. It's part of PHP so that if you use it, you are immediately fired and blackballed from the industry. It's a trap.
I did encounter a piece of code, ages ago, where in a GOTO was the only possible way to accomplish something. They're pretty rare, but in the instance you need the option it is nice knowing it is there.
So then bankers would become like the politicians? Say it ain't so!
Why be like them, it's cheaper to just buy politicians.
Remember when Post-2008 banking regulations were proposed, the sort which were enacted after 1929 when some of the same dirty practices were in effect? Didn't a whole load of House representatives object to and fight better oversight of banks? Sure makes you wonder who in their home districts they were pretending to represent. I'd have been down to my reps office with a boiling vat of tar and a bag of feathers had he tried that.
I'm sorry but I disagree in that this DOES matter. They pissed away $15 billion on the olympics (almost a billion just on security) and didn't even secure it properly?
If the question is, "are financial institutions doing the end run around public or private regulation for the purpose of screwing people, engaging in fraud, and dodging (necessary) liability?" the answer is always yes.
If Mitt had been elected, this would be cheered on by the Whitehouse as good and normal capitalist activity and the FINRA would be disbanded.
If they make it work and ever point that at slashdot, the readings are gonna be flying off the charts!
Slashdot would be a poor test bed for the project. Sarcasm is too easily detected on here to be useful, it's as subtle as being hit by a brick.
Now... if they pointed it at Faux Nooz, that would be pretty interesting to see how much the presenters don't believe of the garbage they're spewing to keep the market other broadcasters have neglected: the disenfranchised intelligentsia.
The future of gaming is mining the past. Has been for a while, but particularly more now as there were a lot of good ideas ages ago which the current crop of players have never seen.
... after the 5th time the Inspector informed the clerk he would like a 'ruuum' the carnation in the clerk's lapel came to life and in a shrill, buzzing voice shouted, "Il veut une chambre d'hôtel! Lui donner une! Petit imbécile!"
The government has always kept a close eye, within its capabilities, upon its people, those who reside within and those they interact with (and often their allies, too.) There's just more ability to keep track because we do so much more digitally these days. If you really want privacy, go over and talk to your friends (unless they work for the NSA, CIA, FBI, NKVD, MI-6, CAGEY BEE, etc.)
Slashdot Mirror
Because the Germans at VW and the American regulators are all a bunch of ***** *****.
Actually, you're at great personal risk in one of these on roads populated with mobile-phone-yakking motorists in pickup trucks and SUVs (not that even a smart couldn't flatten you.) Use of a mobile phone while driving should be treated with the same severity as drunk driving.
Why are the USA still not using them?
Despite what some people will assert, it's due to weak government.
For years we saw these stupid signs along highways, listing Metric and English speed limits and then they were quietly replaced with English ones only. Rather than just push people to accept and get the pain over with (retiring that stupid old system of weights and measures) the government caved to the moronic side of America.
a second ago...
the lawyers!
Thank goodness we have someone evil enough to make the lawyers suffer, if even just a tiny bit, for their part in this - the IRS
Without admitting they were wrong (as usual).
And quite possibly because some patent troll has been warming up in the wings to go after them both.
If you want to see some creators that are going different places check out places like Armor Games.They are usually small flash games that you play for an hour and forget but there are some gems as well. Boxhead wars is great as are the bubble series. There might be 20 crap games but there is usually 20 cool games and 60 games that are just repeats of current themes.
Too cool.
This is the way the video game industry started to enter the home, small teams, simple concepts, achievable in a small time span and on a french fry budget. If one becomes a massive hit, well done to the developer.
Yep, I'll suddenly get more emergency alerts over my satellite radio, for whatever reason they do them now.
Warning purple fuzzy minions attacking everyone on Earth!
Ok... that one would make sense as it isn't location specific.
So long as it's fun to play.
This is the bottom line.
Let students unleash their own creativity, without trying to mimic the failures of the past and present under some kind of pressure to deliver.
My nephew is in a game design program and I can't stress enough how important it is to him to not get hung up on art or sound, but focus on fun game play (besides, doing that laborious art and sound is for minions.)
it will make your metrics problem just grow even more.
deus ex is nice, but if you had an idea about how to do a block building game in 1989 why didn't you make it? we dreamt of a game like that as kids, in 1989 - of course w had no idea how it could have been done well on 8mhz 640kb ega crapper. a lego destruction derby game would have been awesome.
Some of the most enjoyable games I've ever played were on 8 or 16 bit systems. CPU, memory and clockspeed are poor yardsticks for game quality of play.
Great, so they can be scooped up by EA and churn out shit like Madden 2013: You Bought it Again.
-- Ethanol-fueled
That's only half the problem.
The problem of game designers learning from current executives is the other half. Honestly, if game companies are only churning out rehash after rehash and unwilling to take risks on new ideas (sounds a lot like Hollywood, doesn't it?) what could you learn, other than what creates failure?
I spent the weekend analyzing Despicable Me and Despicable Me 2, what made these films fresh and funny where so many with so much to offer (great art, great 3D, etc.) flop like the Lone Ranger - easy, look where Pierre Coffin was schooled - GOBELINS, l'école de l'image, spend some time looking through the galleries at student projects, there's a lot of fresh creativity on display there.
What made a standard (from the 1980s) game format like Angry Birds succeed was in taking a risk, simple graphics and fun game play - a formula which works time and again, but it succeeded wildly where other game developers are focusing on cramming too much of everything into a game and leaving the fun to suffer.
An academy with past designers, who were very successful in their day, before they burned out or were put on a treadmill at EA , would work well.
Microsoft has every incentive to do this, and no disincentive.
Seriously, how many people are going to switch to Linux over this? Nobody.
Get used to it.
Then they should pay me to upgrade.
Even the manual acknowledges it is bad practice and includes the XKCD comic
There are so many languages that try to hide bad programmers. Give me a PHP programmer and his code and I can tell you if he's worth anything, The language lets you code like an idiot. Which is great, because then I can either not hire you or pay you accordingly if I think you have potential.
GOTO is not a part of PHP so you can use it. It's part of PHP so that if you use it, you are immediately fired and blackballed from the industry. It's a trap.
I did encounter a piece of code, ages ago, where in a GOTO was the only possible way to accomplish something. They're pretty rare, but in the instance you need the option it is nice knowing it is there.
So then bankers would become like the politicians? Say it ain't so!
Why be like them, it's cheaper to just buy politicians.
Remember when Post-2008 banking regulations were proposed, the sort which were enacted after 1929 when some of the same dirty practices were in effect? Didn't a whole load of House representatives object to and fight better oversight of banks? Sure makes you wonder who in their home districts they were pretending to represent. I'd have been down to my reps office with a boiling vat of tar and a bag of feathers had he tried that.
Now when your battery catastrophically fails (like Li-Ion), you have the added benefit of instant campfire!
In case of alarm, break glass, remove pointy stick and bag of Stay Puft marshmallows.
I'm sorry but I disagree in that this DOES matter. They pissed away $15 billion on the olympics (almost a billion just on security) and didn't even secure it properly?
Next Olympics: No computers - no problem! :)
Last week I prevented the prevention of the prevention to take place preventing the mishaps that prevents you from using preventative steps.
You didn't know all that because I prevented you from hearing about it until now. Please thank me and bow to your preventive overlord.
Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda...
As long as I haven been alive there has not been an apocalyptic alien invasion.
Therefore, all of Earth's resources and science should be dedicated to making me immortal.
If the question is, "are financial institutions doing the end run around public or private regulation for the purpose of screwing people, engaging in fraud, and dodging (necessary) liability?" the answer is always yes.
If Mitt had been elected, this would be cheered on by the Whitehouse as good and normal capitalist activity and the FINRA would be disbanded.
this is where skynet decides to kill all humans, isn't it?
No, no... that's right after the perfection of the Tom Swifty Detector.
"It still didn't add up", the auditor recounted."
But Poe's law predicted a long time ago, that such detection is, in many cases, actually impossible to accomplish.
Nothing prevents people from selling stock in a venture, particularly if the listening audience isn't already rolling up it's pants cuffs.
No, no, you misunderstand. It will work just fine.
Yeah, very promising, like the Proton rocket. Can't miss.
If they make it work and ever point that at slashdot, the readings are gonna be flying off the charts!
Slashdot would be a poor test bed for the project. Sarcasm is too easily detected on here to be useful, it's as subtle as being hit by a brick.
Now ... if they pointed it at Faux Nooz, that would be pretty interesting to see how much the presenters don't believe of the garbage they're spewing to keep the market other broadcasters have neglected: the disenfranchised intelligentsia.
Like that's going to work.
Things aren't looking so hot for them these days.
The future of gaming is mining the past. Has been for a while, but particularly more now as there were a lot of good ideas ages ago which the current crop of players have never seen.
The government has always kept a close eye, within its capabilities, upon its people, those who reside within and those they interact with (and often their allies, too.) There's just more ability to keep track because we do so much more digitally these days. If you really want privacy, go over and talk to your friends (unless they work for the NSA, CIA, FBI, NKVD, MI-6, CAGEY BEE, etc.)